NOV. SESS.
1809.
Relating to the
encouragement of
domestic manufactures. |
APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
be necessarily conducive to effectuate so desirable an object, and
to place themselves, and their constituents, above the odious necessity
of surrendering their dear bought and high prized independence
at the altar of foreign usurpation, or of bowing in humble
submission to the lawless and insulting orders in council of Great-Britain,
or the unauthorised and illegal decrees of the French
Emperor: And whereas no measures, which a state legislature
could adopt, would so effectually tend to rear these commendable
intentions into actual existence, as a strict attention to the encouragement
and promotion of domestic manufactures; therefore, RESOLVED,
by the general assembly of the state of Maryland, that
they will make use of all means in their power, constitutionally, to
further, protect, encourage and promote, the growth and progress
of domestic manufactures. |
Improving the
breed of sheep. |
No. 8.
RESOLVED, That for this purpose liberal and effectual
measures
should be taken to encourage the raising and improving the breed
of sheep. |
Sheep protected
from execution. |
No. 9.
RESOLVED, That sheep, under the number of twenty,
shall be
protected in the hands of every individual from execution or attachment. |
Militia clothing
themselves in
woollen cloth of
the manufacture
of the state,
to be armed at its
expense. |
No. 10.
RESOLVED, That if forty men, or more, in any company
of militia
or troop of horse within this state, shall clothe themselves in a
full uniform of woollen cloth of the manufacture of this state, to
be certified to the governor and council by the captain of the troop
or company, and commanding officer of the extra battalion or regiment
to which such troop or company may belong, they shall be
completely armed and accoutred at the expense of the state; provided,
that sufficient security be given to the governor and council
for the safe keeping of such arms, and their return when required. |
Each member appearing
in a similar
suit to have
his name enrolled
on the journals. |
No. 11.
RESOLVED, That each member of the general assembly
who
shall appear at the next session in a suit of woollen cloth, of the
manufacture of this state, shall have his name enrolled on the
journals as a patron of domestic manufactures. |
Recommended to
the people to
clothe in domestic
manufactures. |
No. 12.
RESOLVED, That it be recommended to the good people
of this
state to clothe themselves in the domestic manufactures of the country. |
Senators, &c. requested
to oppose
amendment proposed
by Massachusetts. |
No. 13.
RESOLVED, That the amendment proposed by the legislature
of
the commonwealth of Massachusetts to the constitution of the
United States, on the sixteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and
nine, so as to make it unlawful to lay an embargo, or to prohibit
or suspend commerce, for a longer period than until the expiration
of thirty days from the commencement of the session of congress
next succeeding that session in which such law shall have been
enacted, be and the same is hereby disapproved by the legislature
of this state; and that our senators in congress be instructed, and
our representatives be requested, and they are hereby instructed
and requested to oppose the said amendment. |
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