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APPENDIX——RESOLUTIONS.
seventeen hundred and eighty, as the person or persons who may
be authorised by Congress to erect the same, in conjunction with
the governor and council may think most suitable for this purpose. |
DEC. SESS.
1817. |
No. 75.
RESOLVED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the attention
of the Congress of the United States be respectfully invited
to the defenceless situation of its territory bordering on the
waters of the Chesapeake bay. The facilities offered by the boldness
and ramification of its waters, to an invading foe, are written
in the history of the last war. Such a time of peace and national
prosperity as the United States are now preeminently blessed with,
permits the collected wisdom of the constituted authorities to devise
the most efficient system of defence, and allows the resources of the
union to be applied to the future security of the seat of the American
government.
RESOLVED, That our senators and representatives in the
Congress
of the United States, be instructed and requested, to use their
best endeavours to effect the measures essential for the above object.
RESOLVED, That in the event of the United States establishing
a
Naval Depot at Annapolis, the Saint Mary's River, or at any other
place within this state, Maryland will cede, free of any expense to
the general government, the territory adequate to that purpose.
RESOLVED, That his excellency the governor be requested
to
transmit a copy of the preceding resolutions to our senators and
representatives, to be by them submitted to the consideration of
both houses of congress. |
Passed Feb. 11, 1818.
Relative to defence
of the Chesapeake
Bay. |
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DECEMBER SESSION, 1818.
No. 1.
RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore
be directed,
and he is hereby directed, to receive into the treasury of said shore
the sum of $341 25, now in the hands of the treasurer of the eastern
shore, under the resolution of December session 1816, and
that the said treasurer make such disposition thereof, as the governor
and council, or the legislature, may direct. |
Passed Dec. 12.
In favour of the
treasurer eastern
shore. |
No. 2.
RESOLVED, That the treasurer of the western shore
pay to the
governor such sum as he may deem requisite, not exceeding three
thousand dollars, for the purpose of furnishing the government
house. |
Passed Dec. 22.
For furnishing
government-house. |
No. 3.
WHEREAS, by the law passed by the last general assembly
of
Maryland, entitled, An act to impose a tax on all banks or branches
thereof in the state of Maryland, not charted by the legislature,
has been resisted by the branch of the United States Bank
established in Baltimore, as unconstitutional: And whereas the court
of appeals for the western shore, at the last term, decided that the
said law was constitutional, and an appeal has been prayed from
the said judgment to the supreme court of the United States; and
it is expedient that counsel should be employed on the part of this
state in the said court, therefore, |
Passed Dec. 22. |
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