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In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight _ An Act to incorporate the Abyssinian A Society B _ Sec 1. Be it enacted by the Senate the House of Repre- sentatives, in Legislation assembled, that Ephraim Small, Titus Skillings, Clement Thompson, John Sigs and Reuben Ruby, with their associates and successors, be and hereby are incorporated into a body politic, by the name of the "Abyssinian C Society D : with power to [illegible--it looks like two documents that should have been scanned separately are scanned together and one piece of paper is covering the middle section of the longer document]

P In the title of A Insert _ 'Religious' In the title of B Insert _ 'of Portland' At C end end of fifth line Insert _ 'Religious' And After the word Society in the sixth line Insert 'of Portland'

In the Senate July 8th 1828 This Bill having had two several readings to be