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every obligation to the Federal Government and to her sister
States than Maryland.

Therefore be it and it is hereby,

Resolved, by the General Assembly of Maryland, on behalf
of her loyal citizens, whose private property has been taken
as aforesaid, that the State of Maryland has a good, valid
and just claim upon the Government of the United States, for
reasonable and adequate compensation for the said property;
and that it ought not to be doubted that the Federal Govern-
ment, when the possessions excited by the late unhappy civil
war shall have subsided, will recognize the justice of the said
claims, and faithfully perform her manifest duty in regard
to it.

And be it further,

Resolved, That the General Assembly ought to provide by
law, for taking and perpetuating the evidence of the number
and value of the persons held to labor and service as afore-
said, by the loyal citizens of Maryland, and so as aforesaid,
discharged from such service and labor.

ISAAC D. JONES, Chairman,
E. HAMMOND,
PHILIP F. THOMAS,
RICHARD B. CARMICHAEL,
DANIEL H. BRUCE.