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[1] ALS-F, ISLA; ADfS, DLC-RTL. See Lincoln to Creswell, March 7, supra. The new Maryland constitution, drafted by the convention which met at Annapolis on April 27, and adopted at the election of October 12 and 13, 1864, prohibited slavery by its Article Twenty-three.