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APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
late soldier in the extra Maryland regiment, the sum of twenty-two
dollars. |
NOV. SESS.
1798. |
No. 18.
WHEREAS it is highly expedient that every constitutional
barrier
should be opposed to the introduction of foreign influence into
our national councils, and that the constitution of the United States
should be so amended as to effect and secure, in the best manner,
the great objects for which it was designed; therefore RESOLVED,
That the senators and representatives of this state in the congress
of the United States be and they are hereby requested, to use their
best endeavors that congress propose to the legislatures of the several
states the following amendments to the federal constitution,
to wit: That in addition to the other qualifications prescribed by
said constitution, no person shall be eligible as a senator or representative
in the congress of the United States, except a natural born
citizen, or unless he shall have been a resident in the United States
at the time of the declaration of independence, or naturalized and
admitted a citizen at the time of making this amendment to the
constitution: No person shall be eligible as vice-president of the
United States, except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the
United States at the time of the adoption of the federal constitution,
and that no person shall be eligible to that office who shall not have
attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a
resident within the United States. |
Amendment proposed
to constitution
of the United
States. |
No. 19.
RESOLVED, That the president of the senate and the
speaker of
this house be requested forthwith to transmit the foregoing resolve
to the senators and representatives of this state in congress; and
that the governor and council be and they are hereby requested to
communicate the same to the supreme executives of the several states,
with a request that they may be submitted to the considerations of
their respective legislatures. |
Resolution to be
transmitted to senators
and representatives in congress. |
No. 20.
WHEREAS William Ferguson hath represented to this
general assembly,
that he hath an equitable claim against the state of Maryland
on account of a deficiency in the quantity of certain lands
bought by said Ferguson from the state of Maryland, and also that
he is debarred from exercising the legal and customary means of
obtaining redress in the court of chancery in consequence of certain
proceedings heretofore had in said court in relation to said purchase:
And whereas this general assembly are willing and desirous
to place the said Ferguson in the same situation as if said purchase
had never been brought in any manner into question before said
court; therefore, RESOLVED, That the chancellor be and he is hereby
authorised and empowered to hear and determine the claim or
claims which the said William Ferguson may have against the state
on account of the purchase aforesaid, in the same manner as if no
proceedings had ever taken place in the chancery court in relation
to the said purchase. |
Chancellor to determine
claims of
Wm. Ferguson. |
No. 21.
AND RESOLVED, That in case the chancellor should
decree in
favour of the said William Ferguson, the treasurer of the western
shore pay to the said William Ferguson the amount of such decree,
agreeably to the terms thereof. |
In case decree
should be in his
favour, treasurer
to pay, &c. |
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