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this influence more extensive and effectual: And let us fervently pray that it may soon prevade [pervade] every part of the world, and bring all our fellow creatures under its salutary control, that the evils under which man has so long groaned may fly before it, and that the will of God may be done on earth as it is in Heaven.

An [And] the People of this State are requested to refrain and to restrain their children and dependents from all labour [labor] and recreation on that day.

Given at the Council Chamber in Portland, the seventeenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and twenty five, and in the forty ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

Albion K. Parris,

By the Governor;

A: Nichols, Secretary of State,