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APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
We know, that retiring with the blessings of a great
nation is
desirable, and that your republican principles induce you to wish a
rotation in office; but we hope that that amor patriæ, which
is so
natural to you, will permit your name to be placed amongst the
candidates for the next president of the United States.
That you may long live to enjoy the confidence and
attachment
of the American people, is the wish of the Legislature of Maryland. |
NOV. SESS.
1806. |
No. 22.
RESOLVED, That the register of the land-office for
the western
shore be authorised and required, to receive into his office the certificate
of resurvey for a tract of land called Willew Enlarged, lying
in Queen-Anne's county, and dated the nineteenth of February,
seventeen hundred and seventy-four, made out for Joseph Taylor,
and signed by Basil Warfield, deputy-surveyor of Queen-Anne's
county, and the same shall be in the said office subject to
caveat and objections for the time prescribed for other certificates,
and patent shall issue thereon in the same manner as upon certificates
regularly returned to the land-office. |
Register to receive
a certificate
for a tract of land
called Willew Enlarged. |
No. 23.
WHEREAS this general assembly of Maryland, viewing
with sensations
of the greatest pleasure the brave and gallant conduct of
Charles Gordon, John Trippe and John Davis, in the several attacks
on the enemy's gun-boats off Tripoli, whereby they secured
to themselves immortal glory, and gave a brilliant lustre to the navy
of the United States: And whereas this legislature feel an anxious
wish to bear the most honourable testimony to the bravery of
these manly defenders of their country; therefore, RESOLVED unanimously,
That the governor and council be and they are hereby authorised
and required, to procure three elegant swords and belts,
with an appropriate engraving and motto, emblematic of the glorious
actions fought off Tripoli, and cause the same to be delivered
to the said Charles Gordon, John Trippe and John Davis, in testimony
of the high sense of approbation the legislature of this state
entertain of their gallant conduct. |
Relative to gallant
conduct of
Gordon, Trippe
and Davis. |
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NOVEMBER SESSION, 1807.
No. 1.
RESOLVED, That the justices of the levy court for
Baltimore
county be and they are hereby authorised and empowered, to use
and apply the whole, or such part as may be necessary, of the dividends
received by them from the Baltimore and Frederick-town
turnpike road company, and the Baltimore and Reister's town turnpike
road company, towards defraying the expenses incurred by
the maintenance and support of the criminals confined to labour on
the public roads of Baltimore county. |
Certain dividends
to be applied towards
support of
criminals, &c.
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No. 2.
RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore
be and he is
hereby directed and required to pay to Archibald Gordon, of Cecil
county, late a meritorious soldier in the revolutionary war, or to
his order, in quarterly payments, a sum of money equal to the half
pay of a private, as a provision to him in his indigent situation |
Half pay allowed
Archibald Gordon. |
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