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APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
opinion the said Clark is entitled to the tract of land called Mount
Webb, in Harford county, he is hereby authorised to order a patent
to him for the same. |
NOV. SESS.
1809. |
No. 2.
RESOLVED, by the general assembly of Maryland, that
our senators
in congress be instructed, and our representatives requested,
and they are hereby so instructed and requested, to use all proper
means and exertions to procure the passing a law establishing
weights and measures. |
Senators, &c. instructed
to procure
a law establishing
weights
and measures. |
No. 3.
RESOLVED, That the governor be and he is hereby
requested to
transmit these resolutions to the senators and representatives of
this state, when in congress assembled. |
Resolution to be
transmitted to
the |
No. 4.
WHEREAS certain resolutions were entered into by
the " house of
delegates" of the general assembly of Maryland, at the last November
session, the object of which was to impress a belief upon
the public mind, that the citizens of the state of Maryland viewed
the act passed by congress " imposing an embargo, and the several
" acts supplementary thereto, as constituting a portentious system
" of unnecessary, impolitic and unprecedented restraint upon the
" foreign trade and domestic intercourse of these United States;"
and also directing " the senators and representatives from this
" state, in the congress of the United States, to exert themselves
" with all convenient diligence in endeavours to procure a speedy
" relief from the operation of the aforesaid act, and the several
" acts supplementary thereto:" And whereas " the public will" has
been lately expressed by " the public voice itself" in the election
for the immediate representative branch of this legislature, so as
to leave no doubt what the real, true and unveiled sentiments of the
people of Maryland are, relative to that important and politic
measure of our government, so far as their sentiments at this time
can be ascertained by their supporting a policy of a similar nature,
and by their electing, as members of this body, men who were the
warm advocates and active friends of every leading measure of the
late administration: And whereas the late " public voice" has
shewn, conclusively, to every unprejudiced and impartial mind,
that the success so much boasted of, in the said resolutions, by the
majority of the late " house of delegates," must have proceeded
from the many misrepresentations and deceptions made and used
to deceive and ensnare the unguarded voter, and not from any real
change in the political tenets of the state: And whereas to correct
and counteract the false impressions which may have been made
upon the public mind by the proceedings of the majority in the
" house of delegates" at their last November session, touching a
measure so extensively interesting to the whole American people,
and in order to remove the unfavourable opinion of the politics of
this state, which the false colouring of the majority in the last
" house of delegates" may have created in our sister states, it is a
duty which the members of the present assembly owe to their
country, their constituents and themselves, to express a true and
solemn declaration of their sentiments, as to the measures of the
late and present administrations of the general government, and to
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