tors Bryan, Moore and Putzel.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS:
By Mr. Moses,
Joint Resolution authorizing and directing the Board
of Public Works to take such steps as they, after consul-
tation with the Attorney-General, shall deem necessary
to enforce the decree passed by the Circuit Court for
Washington county, in equity, aforesaid, on appeal by
the Court of Appeal for the sale of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal.

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland,.
That the Board of Public Works he and they are hereby
authorized and directed to take such steps as after con-
sultation with the Attorney-General they shall deem
necessary to enforce the decree of the Circuit Court for
Washington county, in equity, affirmed by the Court of
Appeals in the case of the State of Maryland vs. George
S. Bram and others, trustees, reported in 73rd volume of
Maryland Reports, pp. 484-516, and again affirmed upon
a. subsequent appeal in the case of the State of Md. vs.
John K. Cowen and others, trustees, reported in 83rd
volume of Maryland Reports pp 549-646 directing a sale
as in said decree provided of the Chesapeake & Ohio
Canal, and to resist in the name of the State the passage
of any order or decree extending the time, for the execu-
tion of said decree by a sale of said canal beyond the
time already prescribed by the order of the Circuit Court
for Washington county in equity, to-wit: Six years from'
the first day of May, 1895, and to this end to instruct the
Attoiney General to appear on behalf of the State in said
cause and assist the right of the State to enforce the
execution of said decree as soon after the first day of May,.
1901, as shall be reasonably practicable.

Which was read the first time and referred to the Com-
mittee on Judicial Proceedings.
By Mr. Bouic,
Joint Resolutions for the publication of the General
and Local Laws passed by the General Assembly of Mary-
land at the January session 1900.