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�To the Honorable, the Legislature of the State of Maine, the undersigned, Inhabitants of Otisfield in the County of Cumberland, Respectfully may your honorable body to protest against the admission of any new State to this union, whose constitution tolerates domestic slavery - + to forward a copy of such protest to each of the Senators + Representatives of this State in Congress to be by them laid before that body. We also pray you to ask the Senators + Representatives of this State in Congress, to use their utmost influence to prevent the admission of any new State into this union whose constitution tolerates domestic slavery.

[column 1] Robert Anderson Thomas Hancock Alpha Morton John W [illegible] Samual Lovell[illegible] Silas Morton Davey[?] Serihney[?] Grinfill Holden 14 Job Mort[ink blot] Thomas Parks Richard Jackson Ephraim Briggs Henry Holden Joseph W Holden Albert L Fernaldy[?] 13 Samuel W[?] Anderson Otis Fremill[?] Enoch Spears gw[?] Enoch Spears

[column 2] George W Narrows Levi Patch Artemis Turner Saml. Patchl[?] Nathan Wright 13 G Hancock

Meredith W Hancock Martha A Hancock 12 Marge[?] H Hancock 13 Electa G Pirry[?]

[Column 3] Rebecca S. Morton Mary Lovell Susan W Morton age 13 Hannah Glover 16 Josiah Heble[?] 19 Meredith Labiner[?] 17 Miriam Jackson Mary Jackson Betsey W. fernald Harriet N Lovell Lydia H lovell Sarrah Philtpos[?] Sally[?] S Anderson Hester A Patch Olive A. Lane Syrena L Wight Dolly A barrows Livina[?] Spears[?] [illegible, off to the right] Susanna Hancock Susan Hancock Sally Hancock Martha H Wright[?]