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

    The inhabitants of Bucksport in the County of

Hancock 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.

[2 columns of signatures separated by a vertical line] Phineas Higgins Thomas Swazey Lathly Lewis Charles Parnlet Henry Silsby Sullivan Bray Stephen Peabody Abner Bray Nehemiah Rocssett[?] Weston Curtis O Barnard Asa Curtis C Barnard Salomon H Amy Joseph Smith Stephen Bland Mary W Smith[name lined out] Lohpth Smith Lorenzo D Wardwell David Millburn