NOV. SESS.
1811. |
APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
RESOLVED, That the president's message, temperate,
impartial
and decisive, deserves all our praise and support. It points out
the
best course to an honourable independence.
RESOLVED, That the independence established by the aid
and
valour of our fathers, will not tamely be yielded by their sons,
The same spirit which led the freemen of Maryland to battle,
still exists in the state, and waits only for its country's call. |
Passed Jan. 7, 1812.
Relative to the resolutions
approving
the measures
of the general
government. |
No. 54.
RESOLVED, That the president of the senate, and
the speaker of
the house of delegates, be requested to transmit to the president of
the United States, the resolutions adopted by both branches of the
legislature, approbatory of the conduct of the general government
with respect to our foreign relations. |
Passed Jan. 6, 1812.
In favour of Saint
Peter's school. |
No. 55.
RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore
be, and he
is hereby directed to pay to the trustees of St. Peter's Free-School,
in the city of Baltimore, the sum of three thousand dollars; Provided,
That the said trustees shall have given bond with security
to be approved of by the governor and council, conditioned that they
will repay the said sum of money to the state of Maryland into the
treasury of the western shore, on or before the first day of January
in the year eighteen hundred and fifteen, and that they will apply
the said sum of money, within six months after the same shall have
been so advanced to them, in the building and finishing the free-school
of which they are trustees. |
Passed Jan. 7, 1812.
In favour of John
Boone. |
No. 57.
RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore
be, and he is
hereby authorised and required to pay to John Boone, of Charles
county, a lieutenant in the late revolutionary army, the sum of one
hundred and twenty-five dollars annually, in quarterly payments,
out of any unappropriated money in the treasury. |
Passed Jan. 4, 1812.
In favour of Edward
Mahooney. |
No. 60.
RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore
be, and he
is hereby directed to pay unto Edward Mahooney, late a private
in the revolutionary war, or to his order, annually, in quarterly
payments, a sum of money equal to the half pay of a private, as a
further remuneration to him for those services by which his country
has been so essentially benefitted. |
Passed Jan. 6, 1812.
Relative to investments. |
No. 63.
RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore
shall be, and
he is hereby authorised and empowered to subscribe on the part of
the state on account of the stock reserved in the Commercial and
Farmers Bank of Baltimore, twenty-five thousand dollars; in the
Hager's-Town Bank, five thousand dollars; in the Elkton Bank of
Maryland, ten thousand dollars; in the Merchants and Farmers
Bank of Baltimore, fifteen thousand dollars; in the Franklin Bank
of Baltimore, fifteen thousand dollars, and in the Marine Bank of
Baltimore, ten thousand dollars; and that the amount thereof be
paid out of any unappropriated money in the treasury. |
Passed Nov. 19, 1811.
Form in which
laws, &c. shall be
printed. |
No. 64.
RESOLVED, That hereafter the acts and resolutions,
and the votes
and proceedings of the General Assembly be printed on paper of
the size of that usually called royal octavo; that the day on which
a law shall have passed be noted in the margin opposite to its title, |
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