JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

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eral Assembly of Virginia shall decline to concur in

adopting the said line, that this General Assembly

does hereby propose that the General Assembly of

Virginia and of this State, pass concurrent acts re-

ferring the entire controversy concerning the line of

Referred to

boundary between the two States, to the arbitra-

arbitrament.

ment and final decision and determination of the

Honorable Jeremiah S. Black, of the State of Penn-

sylvania, as chancellor exercising the equity juris-

diction in the premises of the Supreme Court of the

United States, each State in and by said concurrent

acts of Assembly pledging its faith to accept and

abide by his award in the premises as final, each

State to be represented by counsel before the said

arbitrator, subject to such regulations as he may

prescribe.

THIRD. And be it further resolved by the General As-

sembly of Maryland, That pending the said boundary

Respectfully
requested.

controversy, the General Assembly of Virginia be

and it is hereby respectfully requested to take such

action as shall secure to the citizens of Maryland

equal rights with the citizens of Virginia to take oys-

Equal rights.

ters and terrapins in the waters of Pocomoke Bay

and Sound and River ; and further, that in the wa-

ters of Tangier Sound, pending said controversy, the

rights of the citizens of the two States shall be regu-

lated according to the line and agreement known as

the " Lovett and Davidson" Line and Agreement.

FOURTH. And be it further resolved by the General As-

sembly of Maryland, That Honorables John W. Davis

Requested.

and Isaac D. Jones, of Baltimore city, and James U.

Dennis, of Somerset county, be and they are hereby re-

quested, without compensation, to bear immediately

the foregoing resolutions to the General Assembly

of Virginia at Richmond.