NOV. SESS.
1800. |
APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
No. 11.
RESOLVED, That the chancellor, upon bill or petition
being filed
by James Lytle, in relation to a purchase made by Nathaniel Ramsey
from the commissioners of confiscated property, part of a tract
of land called Jones's Inheritance, being part of the property of
the Principio company, lying in Harford county, heretofore assigned
by said Ramsey to James Lytle, and by the chancellor, in behalf of
the state of Maryland, conveyed to said Lytle, be and is hereby
authorised to proceed upon said bill or petition, and to ascertain
the deduction, if any, that ought to have been made from the purchase
money, of said land, in the same manner as if said Lytle had
at any time heretofore filed said bill against the state of Maryland,
and that on said deduction, if any, being decreed, and the decree
being presented to the treasurer of the western shore, he pay the
amount thereof to the said James Lytle out of any unappropriated
money which may be in the treasury. |
Amendments proposed
to constitution
of U. S. |
No. 12.
RESOLVED, That in the opinion of this legislature,
the following
amendments to the constitution of the United States would conduce
to the happiness of the citizens thereof, by the establishment of an
uniform mode for the choice of electors of president and vice-president
of the United States, and of representatives to congress.
First. That after the third day of
March, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and one, the choice of electors of president and
vice-president shall be made, by the legislature of each state dividing
the state into a number of districts equal to the number of electors
to be chosen in such state, and by the persons in each of those
districts, who shall have the qualifications requisite for electors
of
the most numerous branch of the legislature in such state, choosing
one elector in the manner which the legislature thereof shall prescribe,
which districts, when so divided, shall remain unalterable
until a new census of the United States shall be obtained.
Second. That the election of representatives
to serve after the
third day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and
three, shall be, by dividing each state by the legislature thereof
into a number of districts equal to the number of representatives to
which such state shall be entitled, and by the people within each of
those districts, who shall have the qualifications requisite for electors
of the most numerous branch of the legislature of such state,
choosing one representative in the manner which the legislature
thereof shall prescribe, which districts, when so divided, shall remain
unalterable until a new census of the United States shall be
obtained.
RESOLVED, That the president of the senate, and the
speaker of the
house of delegates, be requested forthwith to transmit the foregoing
resolve to the senators, and also to the 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 consideration of their respective legislatures. |
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