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�To the Honorable the Legislature of the State of Maine

     The undersigned, Inhabit in 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 them in 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 Senators and request the 
 Representatives of this State in Congress, to use

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

 the District of Columbia; and in these Territories

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

 trade between several states.

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    Males                                   Males                                  Females

Stephen H West George F Talbot Sally Smith Chason Ch Chiles James G Whittman J.H. Talbot Sarah S Nelson [struck out]Stephen H West George Harris Rebecca OB Talbot John Hathaway N L Allen Drucilla W Hamm 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 Maury Ann Ellishie