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Passed Jan. 19, 1832
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A Resolution requesting the Senators and Representatives
of this state, in the Congress of the United States, to use
their exertions to procure appropriations for the estab-
lishment and support of proper Buoys, at the entrances of
the rivers Nanticoke, Manokin, Annamessix, Pocomoke,
and Wicomico, in the collection districts of Snowhill and
Vienna.
WHEREAS, the entrances of the rivers Nanticoke, Mano-
kin, Annamessix, Pocomoke and Wicomico, in the collec-
tion districts of Snowhill and Vienna, common to the navi-
gation and commerce of more than one thousand registered
and licensed vessels, and affording a nursery of seamen of
incalculable value, are difficult of access by reason of nar-
row and meandering channels through expanded flats or
shallows, in consequence whereof, the owners of vessels
properly belonging to those rivers, although few in compari-
son to the number who resort or trade therein, have long
been and now are, subject to an annual tax for staking out
and designating the said channels; and considering that the
regulation of commerce has been wholly ceded to the gen-
eral government, and that the individual states in their
sovereign character are entirely divested of all its resulting
revenues; and considering further, that the numerous sailors,
and watermen employed in the navigation of the said rivers,
are subject to a monthly imposition, under the denomination
of hospital money, without an equivalent benefit, as very
few of those sailors and watermen are ever admitted into
the marine hospitals — Therefore,
Resolved, That our senators in congress be instructed, and
our representatives therein requested to use their exertions
to procure appropriations, and provide that the channels of
the said rivers, may be distinctly marked out, and made ea-
sy of ingress and egress, by the establishment and support
of proper buoys, at the charge and expense of the United
States.
Further Resolved, That his excellency, the Governor, be
requested to communicate a copy of the foregoing preamble
and resolution, to each of the senators and representatives
of tins state, in the congress of the United States.
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