NOV. SESS.
1806. |
APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
costs of protest, and the treasurer is hereby directed to pay the
bills, interests and costs, at the par of exchange. |
This state's senators
in congress
instructed to
oppose the passage
of a law to
erect a bridge
over Potomac river. |
No. 10.
RESOLVED, That the senators of this state in the
congress of the
United States, be and they are hereby requested to use their utmost
efforts and endeavours to prevent the passage of a law in congress
for erecting a bridge from the city of Washington across the Potomac
river, as being destructive of the free navigation of that
river, guaranteed by the solemn compact entered into between Virginia
and Maryland, as highly disadvantageous and injurious to
the substantial interests of a large part of this state, and on the
ground that no manifest imperious public good at this time, and in
the present state of the population of the city of Washington or
the district, demands such a sacrifice on the part of Maryland. |
Resolution to be
forwarded to them. |
No. 11.
RESOLVED, That the governor be and he is hereby
requested to
forward a copy of the above resolution to our senators in congress. |
State's right to
land relinquished. |
No. 12.
RESOLVED, That all the right, title and estate,
of the state of
Maryland, of, in and to the land and premises, to wit: All that
tract or part of a tract of land called Pretty Prospect, lying now
in the district of Columbia, conveyed in mortgage to the state of
Maryland by Uriah Forrest, by deed, bearing date on the twenty-eighth
day of February, eighteen hundred, be and the same is hereby
released unto Philip Barton Key, and his heirs. |
Said land to be
conveyed to P. B.
Key. |
No. 13.
RESOLVED FURTHER, That the attorney-general of this
state be
and he is hereby authorised and required, in the name and on behalf
of this state, to execute such conveyance or conveyances to the
said Philip Barton Key, and his heirs, as to the said attorney-general,
shall be thought effectual, thereby conveying unto him, the said
Philip Barton Key, and his heirs, all the right, title and estate, of the
state of Maryland, so as aforesaid, acquired, of, in and to, the land
and premises aforesaid. |
Legislature decline
adopting certain amendments
proposed
by legislature of
Tennessee. |
No. 14.
THE resolutions of the legislature of Tennessee,
proposing an
amendment to the constitution of the United States, by which the
congress may be permitted to prohibit the importation of slaves
into the United States, having been communicated by the governor
of Maryland to this general assembly, and having been maturely
deliberated on, RESOLVED, That although the legislature of Maryland
entertain no doubt but that the prohibition of the importation
of slaves into these United States is a measure most earnestly to
be desired, and did, by a resolution passed in the year eighteen
hundred and five, instruct their senators and representatives in the
congress of the United States, to use their utmost exertions, as
soon as the same was practicable, to obtain an amendment to the
federal constitution, so as to authorise and empower congress to
pass a law prevent the importation of slaves, but as the period
when congress will be empowered without such amendment to legislate
upon the subject, and by law prohibit such importation, has
now so nearly arrived as to render to probable that the adoption
of the amendment at this time would not accelerate the measure;
therefore the legislature of Maryland do not at this time deem it |
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