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

    The undersigned Inhabitants of Turner County of Oxford in the County of

Oxford 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 separated by 2 vertical lines] Gentlemen's Names Neiurish Bauer Ladies Names

                                                 Lynas Wendling

Allen Greely Joseph Wendling Eunice L. S. Greely John Turner Lewis French Persis Thayer Charles French John Dresser Persis Thayer Junior Kant Brigg John Eibell Abigail Talbot Jr William Burrell Sabastian Eibell Abigail Talbot Jona. B. Barrell Hermann Storch Philena Hathaway Chandler Bradford Sr Ichabod Leavitt Esther Talbot Edward S Reynolds Philip True Lurana Barrell Loring Copeland Lydia Talbot

                                                                                         Joan Waterman

Eli Hathaway Lois Cary Azor Barrell Mary Ann Conant William Cary Clara Cary Justin Conant Temperance Cary Ezra Cary Jr Huldah Barrell Salmon Cary Jr Nabby Barrell Thor G Newhall Mariah Cary S, H, Newhall Alma Cary