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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
Joseph Hale Eunice Hale Joesph Hale Jr Phebe Fogg
Eliza Ann H Dearborn
Ebenezer Adams Sally Adams Samuel Swetty Rebechath Thomas Robert B Caverly Sarah Adams Rufus E Eastman Sucretia Adams Benjamin Tholey Nancy S Swett Isaac Holey Hannah Eastman Joshua Cobb Cassandra Eastman