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APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
No. 6.
RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore
subscribe,
on the part of the state, on account of the stock reserved in the
Mechanics Bank of Baltimore, the sum of forty thousand dollars,
and on account of the stock reserved as aforesaid in the Farmers
Bank of Maryland the sum of eighty thousand dollars, and also
on account of the stock reserved as aforesaid in the Hager's-Town
Bank the sum of twenty thousand dollars, and that the amount
thereof be paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury. |
NOV. SESS.
1807.
Treasurer authorised
to subscribe
for stock, in certain
banks. |
No. 7.
RESOLVED, That the legislature, in respect to the
memory of
the late John Gale, deceased, a delegate from Kent county, who
departed this life while attending the discharge of his legislative
duties, wear scarfs and bands during the remainder of the session,
and that the funeral expenses be placed on the journal of accounts. |
Scarfs and bands
to be worn in respect
to memory
of John Gale. |
No. 8.
RESOLVED, That the governor and council be and they
are hereby
authorised and directed, to cause the unappropriated room in
the west corner of the stadt-house to be fitted up and prepared for
the office of the register in chancery, and that the expense thereof,
which shall not exceed four hundred dollars, be paid out of the
treasury by a draught drawn on the treasurer of the western shore
by them for that purpose. |
Room to be prepared
in stadt-house
for register
in chancery. |
No. 9.
RESOLVED, That the executive of the state be and
they are
hereby authorised and empowered, to purchase, for the use of the
state of Maryland, four thousand stand of arms and fifteen pieces
of artillery, and cause the said artillery to be mounted on carriages,
and they are authorised to distribute the said artillery in such
manner as they shall deem proper. |
Executive to purchase
4000 stand
of arms and 15
pieces of artillery. |
No. 10.
RESOLVED, That such officers of the militia as heretofore
may
have bonded to the state of Maryland for the safe keeping and redelivery
of any arms put into their hands, and who nor or hereafter
may be out of commission, may call upon the executive and
have the said bond delivered up to them upon presenting to the
executive the bond of the officer appointed and filling his place,
with security to be approved of by the said executive; and where
any arms bonded for as aforesaid, may have been destroyed by fire
or other unavoidable accident, the same shall be credited upon said
bond on the parties producing to the executive satisfactory evidence
that a certain number arms have been so destroyed or lost. |
Relative to bonds
for safe-keeping
and re-delivery of
arms. |
No. 11.
WHEREAS the general assembly of Maryland have, on
all occasions,
viewed with the deepest interest and utmost solicitude, every
change in the aspect of our foreign relations, the present novel and
interesting crisis peculiarly demand an expression of the public
will, through the medium of the legislature; therefore, RESOLVED,
That the late act of congress, imposing an embargo, is, in the
opinion of this general assembly, a measure strongly characteristic
of the judgment and wisdom of our national councils, and well
calculated to inspire confidence in the individuals of the nation
which they represent. |
Act of congress
imposing an embargo
approved of. |
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