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�Signed by 36 Voters

                + 65 Women

To the Honorable, the Legislature of the State of Maine

    The undersigned Citizens of Limerick in the County of

York 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.
    We further Respectfully pray your honorable body, immediately to pass a law 
 securing to every human be-

ing in this State, a TRIAL BY JURY, in all cases where his of her liberty is in

 question.

Alma Libby Salva A. Freeman Charles Freeman Elizabeth Hamm Hiram Dennett Eliza Cole Haumphry Pike Frances M Dennett James Adams Sarah W Hayes William Townson Caroline O Parassey[?] George D. Staple Susan P Dennett Joseph Hobson Jr Clarissa W Cole

                                                                  Mary Ann Cole

Chas. S Smales Phebe E Freeman Emily E Poor Elixa S Hayes Maria N Poor Ann G Bardman Jane L Poor Almira B Bunker Helen R. Poor Rachel W Boardman D. A. Poor Catherine Morrill William Swasey Deborah C Morrill Luther Farnum Mary Morrill Edmund Hayes Jr Abigail Dole Ira Clark Almira Dole

                                                                 Harriet Hale