STATE OF MAINE. IN SENATE, January 12, 1843. ORDERED, That 500 copies of the foregoing Report, be printed for the use of the Legislature. Attest: JERE HASKELL, Secretary. STATE OF MAINE. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THE Committee on Elections, to whom were referred the credentials of Joseph S. Nichols and Wadsworth Bolter, both claimants to a seat in this House, as the Representative of the class composed of the towns of Bingham, Brighton, Moscow and Mayfield, and Spaulding and Forks plantations, ask leave to REPORT: That the said Nichols and Bolter have both appeared, been duly qualified, and taken seats in this House. Nichols claims a seat by virtue of an election held on the fourteenth day of November last. Bolter claims to have been elected at the meetings in said district, holden on the second Monday of September last, at which time the whole number of ballots for Representative, received and counted by the selectmen and assessors of the several towns and plantations, was 427, making 214 necessary for a choice, and of which Bolter received 213. But Bolter alleges that the assessors of Forks plantation received and counted against him at said balloting, the vote of John Kimball, and the assessors of Spaulding plantation those of Calvin B. Goodrich, Joseph Russel, 2d, Darius Goodrich and Jonathan Emery, who were not legal voters in said plantations. |