JOINT RESOLUTIONS. 765

	No. 4.
	Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly of
	Maryland relative to the removal of the obstructions
	to the harbor of Annapolis.
	Whereas the Government of the United States of
	America has expended large sums of money in
	erecting buildings and enlarging the grounds of	Preamble.
	the United States Naval Academy, at Annapolis,
	and in purchasing ground and erecting buildings
	for experimental purposes, connected with the
	Navy at Fort Madison ; and
	Whereas it is desirable that the bars which cause
	an obstruction to United States and other vessels
	of large draught in entering the harbor of Annap-
	olis should be removed or cut away, so as to admit	Preamble.
	said vessels with more facility and without dan-
	ger of grounding on said bars, and also for the
	purpose of commerce.
	And whereas a reasonable expenditure of money	.
	for the purpose above mentioned would be, in the	Preamble.
	judgment of this General Assembly, both wisdom
	and economy; therefore,
	Be it resolved by the General Assembly of Mary-
	land, That our Senators and Representatives in Con-
	gress be and they are hereby requested and urged to	Urge all pro-
	use all proper means in their power to induce Con-	per means.
	gress to make an appropriation to deepen the en- trance to the harbor of Annapolis, by cutting away
	said bars.
	Resolved, That his Excellency, the Governor, be
	requested to transmit to each of our Senators and	Transmit
	Representatives in Congress a copy of the foregoing	copy.