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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 and with the accompanying Documents referred to the Committee for Literature & Literary Institutions Sent down for concurrence Robert P Dunlap Pres.