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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
State of Maine In the Senate March 13 1857
Ordered, that the committee on Slavery and Kansas affairs be directed to prepare and submit to the legislature, resolutions or a report [?] of the views of the legislature on the late decision of the United States Supreme Court, in the Dred Scott case, and such further legislation as may be proper in reference to that decision
Read + passed [?] Joseph B Hale Sec'y
H. of Representatives Mar. 14 1857 Read + passed in concurrence George W. Wilcox, Clerk
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