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�To the Honorable, the Legislature of the State of Maine

    The undersigned Inhabitants of Winthrop in the County of

Kennebec Respectfully pray your honorable body, to adopt resolutions declaring:

    1. That Congress has the constitutional Power to abolish slavery and the slave 
 trade, in the District of Columbia.
    2. That it has the constitutional power to abolish therein the several Territories 
 of the Union, where they exist.
    3.That it has the constitutional power to prohibit the slave trade between the 
 several States of the Union.
    4. That, in regard to all these particulars, Congress ought immediately to 
 exercise that power.

We also pray your honorable body, to send a copy of said resolutions to each of

 the Senators and Representatives of this State in

Congress, to be by them laid before that body;--to the Governors of the several

 States, to be by them laid before their respective

legislatures; and to the President of the United States.

    We further pray your honorable body, to instruct the Senators, and request the 
 Representatives, of this State, in Congress, to use

their utmost influence, for the immediate abolition of slavery and the slave trade in

 the District of Columbia, and in those Territories

of the Union where they exist;--and also for the immediate prohibition of the slave

 trade between the several States.

Pelig Benson Jr Ann Shaw Seth May Sam Benjamin William M Marr Daniel Lam Daniel Dauer Lappair Josephus Stevens Asa Upton Otis Howard Calerisa Metcalf Otis Whitman Thos. L Meggmer S. B. Prescott Otis R Johnson Wm L Marshall Stephen Andrews Gorham J Luce Hannibal B Smith Elijah Jacob Thomas Jackson Amos Duering Saml. Chandler Ransom Bishop Cyrus Bishop Jeremiah Glickner Meshack W Blake Mofis Joy Cornelia B. Morton Martin Cushing Samuel Wood Chan Sharn Neith Perkins Caleb Hams Joseph A. Metcalf Samuel Webb David Thunton Gretchen Sewall

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         Petition of

P. Benson Jr + others, Legal voters of the Town of Winthrop[double underline] respecting slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia.[double underline]

    House of Representatives
              Feb 9 1838

Read + referred to the committee who have under consideration the subject of slavery

               Sent up for concurrence
  E. H. Allen   Speaker

  In Senate, Feb. 10, 1838

Read and concurred

 N. S. Littlefield   Pres

E Holmes Winthrop