JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

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the yearly migration of such fish as welf as those

who dwell upon the lower waters of these States

named and said District of Columbia; and

WHEREAS, It is impossible for such fish to reach

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said upper waters on account of the impassability

of the Great Falls of the Potomac, unless there be

built a fish way, to enable such fish to go around

said falls, and so get to the upper waters of the

Potomac and its tributaries; and

WHEREAS, At a convention of the commissioners

of fisheries of the States of Maryland, Pennsylvania

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and New Jersey, held in Philadelphia, on the

26th day of January, Anno Domini, 1876, a reso-

lution was passed declaring the necessity of the

erection of a fish way over the Great Falls of the

Potomac, and urging action by the United States

Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries; and

WHEREAS, It appears from the report of the com-

missioners of fisheries of this State, that it is

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entirely practicable to erect a fish way at that

point.

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the Senators of this State be instructed, and

its Representatives in Congress requested to urge

Be requested
and instruct'd

upon the Congress of the United States, the passage

of such measures as will secure the erection of the

same by the Government of the United States, and

the appropriation of the necessary funds for such

purpose.

And be it resolved, That a copy of these resolutions

and preamble be sent to the Senators and Repre-

Transmit a
copy.

sentatives of this State in the Congress of the United

States, and to the Governors of the States herein-

before named, with the request to lay the same

before the Legislatures of their respective States.

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