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         <dateline>
            <date value='1834-05-05'>Monday, May 5, 1834.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and Mentor Graham serve as clerks at election of sheriff of
            Sangamon County. Polls are opened in house of William F. Berry. Garret Elkin receives 84
            votes, David Dickinson 77, and Zachariah Peter 4. Lincoln votes for Dickinson. Bowling
            Green, Hugh Armstrong, and David Whray act as judges.<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;Original; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A31' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Election Return</xref>, 5 May
               1834, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:23-24.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Lincoln is allowed $1 as clerk of election by County Commissioners'
               Court.<bibl default='NO'>Record D, 84.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1834-05-06'>Tuesday, May 6, 1834.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln returns poll book of special election.<bibl default='NO'>Record D, 84.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Dr. Garret Elkin is elected. On June 3, 1834 county commissioners allow
            Lincoln $2 for returning poll book.]</p>
      </div2>