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APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
No. 5.
RESOLVED, That the executive be authorised and requested
to
purchase four hundred horseman's pistols, and four hundred cavalry
swords, for the use of the state, and subject to the future order of
the executive. |
NOV. SESS.
1808.
Pistols and swords
authorised to be
purchased. |
No. 6.
RESOLVED, That the executive be authorised and requested
to
purchase, in case there should exist a necessity for the same, four
thousand water proof cartridge boxes, and four thousand knapsacks,
and that the sums necessary for the said resolutions be paid
out of any unappropriated money in the treasury of the western
shore, by a draught thereon by the executive for the same. |
Also cartridge
boxes and knapsacks. |
No. 7.
RESOLVED, That the executive of this state be and
they are
hereby required, to take all proper steps to cause to be returned,
all arms, the property of the state, that may be in possession of
persons in the District of Columbia, and that they make report of
the same to the next legislature. |
Arms in possession
of persons in
District of Columbia
to be returned. |
No. 8.
RESOLVED, That the number of four thousand stand
of arms,
and the horsemens swords and pistols, directed to be purchased by
this legislature, and subject to the order of the executive, when
provided, shall be deposited equally in the arsenals on the eastern
and western shores of this state, and distributed by the executive
among the militia only when called into actual service; and if our
quota should be actually called for by the general government, then
such distribution shall be considered only by way of loan to the
general government. |
Arms, &c. authorised
to be purchased
to be deposited
equally in
arsenals, &c. |
No. 9.
RESOLVED, That the governor and council be requested
to procure,
and submit to this house at their next meeting, information
as to the probable expenses of erecting and furnishing a building
of sufficient dimensions for the manufacturing, annually, one thousand
stand of arms complete, fifty brace of horseman's pistols, one
hundred horseman's swords, and one hundred swords suitable for
artillerists, and the practicability of procuring workmen sufficient
for the same, and the usual wages for such workmen, and as to the
most eligible site for the erection of such buildings, the machinery
of which, if necessary, to be worked by water, steam, or otherwise;
and that, by publication of this resolution, they give notice
that they will receive description of, and proposals for the sale of,
such site, and that they procure, if practicable, the annual report
of the different establishments of the same kind in the United
States. |
Governor and
council to submit
information as to
probable expense
of erecting buildings
for manufactory
of arms, &c. |
No. 10.
RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore
be and he
is hereby directed to purchase sixty-two copies of the Landholder's
Assistant and Land-Office Guide, published by John Kilty, and to
pay the amount thereof out of any unappropriated money in the
treasury. |
Landholder's Assistant
to be purchased. |
No. 11.
RESOLVED, That the governor and council cause the
said books
to be forwarded and distributed as follows: To the place of the
holding of the county courts, three copies, one for the county |
How to be distributed. |
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