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�To the Senate

                and House of Representatives,

                                       I have the honor to transmit to you a copy of a joint resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Alabama, relative to a proposition for the emancipation of slaves, and to a resolution of the Legislature of New Jersey recommending a system of foreign colonization, which I have been requested by the Governor of the former State, to lay before you.
                                             Enoch Lincoln

Council Chamber, Portland, February 12, 1827 In Senate, February 19th 1827 Read