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JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
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No. 9.
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WHEREAS a large number of the best citizens of Cecil
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and Kent counties of Maryland have, by their peti-
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tion to this present general assembly, prayed the same
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to ask the Congress of the United States to appropri-
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ate a sufficient sum of money to have Sassafras river,
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between said counties, surveyed, with reference to
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Preamble.
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widening and deepening the channel of said river
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from the bridge at Georgetown to the village of Sassa-
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fras, and the appropriation of a sum of money not
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only for said survey, but also for the work necessary
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to said widening and deepening, and representing to
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said genera] assembly the large advantage which will
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accrue to them and the surrounding counties; there-
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fore —
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Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Dele-
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gates of Maryland, now in session at Annapolis, in
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said State, That the senators and members of the
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house of representatives of this state, now assembled
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in Congress at Washington, are earnestly requested to
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Ask for appro-
priation.
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ask from the said Congress such appropriation as to
them shall seem just and proper for the necessary sur-
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vey and costs to widen and deepen the channel of
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Sassafras river, in this state, from the bridge at
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Georgetown to the village of Sassafras, in Kent
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county, sufficient in depth to allow the passage of the
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ordinary vessels used in the navigation of said river.
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