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

    The undersigned Inhabitants of East Machias in the County of

Washington 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.

[3 columns of signatures under the heading of Males and Females divided by 2 vertical lines] Males Males Females Stephen H. West George F. Talbot Sally Smith Chason Ch Miles James G Whittman J. H. Talbot Sarah S. Wilson Stephen H. West[name lined out]

                                           George Harris                 Rebecca OB Talbot

John Hathaway U. L. Allan Drucilla W Harris Peter Talbot Adam Johnson Mrs. Apphia Foster Otis Wilson Jacob Veazie Apphia Foster George H Avery Samuel Foster Mary Harmon Samuel Sevey J. H. Hitchcock Israel Noony 153 Males M Ellishie