(334) votes, and I.P. Garrison six (6)
This 9th day of Oct }          C
ober 1856	    }	       a	    
			       n  J.W. Richarson
			       v  F.A. Shannon
			       a  Geo M. Boston
                               s  Judge of Probate
                               s  A. County
 Recorded 10th Oct. 1856       e
	GW Boston J. Probate   r 
State of Florida  }            s
Alachua County	  } We the undersined, do cer
tify the following to be a true and correct ret
urn of Election for Governor, as received from 
the different precincts in said County: 
Whole number of votes five Hundred and and 
twenty five (525) and of that number 
M S Perry received Three Hundred and Thi
rty six (336) and D.S. Walker received 
one Hundred and eighty nine (189)    C
This 9th day of                      a   J.W. Richarson
October 1856		  	     n   F.A. Shannon
                                     v   Geo M. Boston
                                     a   Judge of Probate
                                     s   Alachua County
                                     s
                                     e
Recorded 10th Oct. 1856              r
           GW B J. Probate           s
   We the undersigned do hereby Certify that 
the Foregoing is a correct return as received by us 
of the Election for Associate Justice of the 
Supreme Court held first Monday in Dec'r 
1855
	For	Bird M. Pearson 	Fifty votes
	  "	Jos B. Lancaster	Seventeen votes
	  "	Philip Frasier		two votes
	  "	B.A. Putnam	        One vote           
		Amounting in all to	 70 votes
PS
Omitted to be				H. Bradford
recorded, sometime			S.L. Nostrand
since					Geo W. Boston
this 4th Dec'r 1856		Judge of Probate ----