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�                   State of Maine
          Resolve relating to Slavery in
          The District of Columbia

     Whereas the unions of the 
territory, which now constitutes the
District of Columbia, by the States of
Virginia + Maryland were made sub=
sequently to the adoption of the [?]
Constitution, and in perseverance of its
new and nonqualified provisions --
and whereas, it need not cooperate
either for the States receiving cessions
or Congress in accepting them, to
have made [insert] or admitted any necessities, which
could have the effect either Direct=
ly or by implication to restrict any
subsequent Congress in its acction over
said District -- and whereas [insert] the history of that
period provides numerous facts [?]
going to show, that it was the
expectation of the American people,
that Congress would exert
its power, upon all proper occasions,
to prosecute the extinction of Slavery
and to remove it from those Areas[?]
over which it might have [?]
                       E. H. Allen Speaker