<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <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>In William F. Berry's home, Abraham Lincoln and Mentor Graham serve as
  clerks in an election to pick a sheriff. Lincoln and Graham attest to the
  results certified by election judges Bowling Green, Hugh Armstrong, and David
  Whray. Lincoln casts his vote for David Dickinson, who receives 77 votes. The
  winner, Garrett Elkin, receives 84 votes, and Zechariah Peter places third with
  four votes.<bibl default='NO'>
  <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>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <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>