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APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
on the part of this state to meet such commissioners as may
be appointed for the same purpose by the commonwealth of Virginia,
to settle and adjust, by mutual compact between the two governments,
the western and southern limits of this state, and the dividing
lines and boundaries between this state and the said commonwealth;
and also to settle and adjust as aforesaid any claim of this
state or the said commonwealth to territory within the limits of
the other; and the said commissioners are required to report their
proceedings, in virtue of this appointment and authority, to the general
assembly of this state, at their next session after the same
shall have been concluded, for confirmation or rejection. |
NOV. SESS.
1795. |
No. 4.
RESOLVED, That the governor of this state be requested
to transmit,
without delay, to the governor of Virginia, a copy of the foregoing
resolve, in order to its being laid before the legislature of that
commonwealth, and at the same time to communicate the wish of
this general assembly that a similar resolve may be passed by the
general assembly of Virginia. |
Copy of resolution
to be forwarded to
Governor of Virginia,
&c. |
No. 5.
RESOLVED, That the trustee of this state be and
he is hereby empowered
and directed to transfer to the Patuxent associators, or
their legal representatives, stock of the United States belonging
to this state bearing an immediate interest of six per cent. to
the
amount of four thousand three hundred and eighty-four dollars,
stock of the United States bearing and interest of six per cent.
after
the year eighteen hundred to the amount of two thousand one hundred
and ninety-two dollars, and stock of the United States bearing
an interest of three per cent. to the amount of three thousand two
hundred and eighty-eight dollars, in the proportions herein after
directed; and in order to ascertain the proportion of the said stocks
which each individual associator, or his representatives, may be
entitled to receive, the governor for the time being is hereby authorised
and requested to nominate for that purpose three impartial
persons as referrees, who, or a majority of them, shall thereupon,
and after five weeks notice in the Annapolis and George-town newspapers,
and such other notice as they shall think necessary, meet
at a convenient place, by them to be appointed, and proceed to adjust
the several proportions aforesaid upon principles of right and
justice; and the said referrees, or a majority of them, may adjourn
from day to day until the objects of their nomination shall be completed;
and when the said adjustment shall be closed, they shall report
the same, under their hands and seals, to the said trustee, who
shall thereupon transfer to such of the said associators, or their legal
representatives, as shall apply for the same, stocks of the United
States as aforesaid to the amount of their respective proportions;
provided, that the aggregate of transfers shall not exceed the
sums aforesaid; and provided also, that before any such transfer,
bond with security, to be approved by the said trustee, shall be
given for repayment to the state of the stock to be transferred, in
case it shall hereafter appear that this state hath not had credit with
the United States for the amount of the aforesaid sums in the late
settlement of the accounts between the United States and the individual
states. |
Trustee authorised
to transfer
stock of the U. S.
to the Patuxent
association, &c. |
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