1831,

RESOLUTIONS.

Resolved, That said committee be instructed to enquire,

and report to the senate, whether any survey can be found

in the archives of this State; which was made to ascertain

the courses of the south and north branches of Potomac,

with a meridian through the heads of each branch, to deter-

mine their relative extent to the west; and if any such can

be found, to report to the senate, what time, and by whom

made; and what evidence it "affords, to illustrate and estab-

lish "The first fountain of the Potomac."

Resolved, That said committee be instructed to enquire

and report to the senate, the nature of the dispute, touching

these limits, between Frederick Lord Baltimore and Lord

Fairfax, up to the close of the revolution, and what steps

have been taken since, from time to time, by this State, and

our sister State of Virginia, to settle our southern and wes-

tern limits — specifying particularly, the different periods of

negotiation, the result of each, the present condition of the

dispute; and whether it is necessary for the peace and se-

curity of our people, and the dignity of the State, to have

these limits, or either of them, defined; and what step ought

to be taken by this State to procure a final adjustment thereof.

No. 127.

Passed Jan. 17,1832

Resolution relative to re-chartering the United States Bank.

WHEREAS, the present charter of the United States

Bank will expire by its own limitation, on the fourth of

March, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and that

institution, in which the interests of society are extremely

and deeply involved, will then cease to exist, unless its

charter be renewed by the congress of the United States —

And,

Whereas, we the members of the Senate and of the

House of Delegates of Maryland, believe that it is of vital

importance, not only to the institution and those immediate-

ly concerned, but to the community, that there should be dur-

ing the present session of congress, some definitive action

on the subject of re chartering the United States Bank,

whose operations are, in a greateror less degree, exercising

a salutary influence and control on public and private reve-

nue in all parts of the Union — And,

Whereas, our currency has now attained, after greath in-

dividual and public embarrassment, a sound and uniform

state, induced by the restraining influence exerted by the

United States Bank over our local institutions— And,