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No. 12.
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Joint resolutions requesting the legislature of the common-
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wealth of Virginia to pass an act compensating Stewart H. Evans,
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owner of the schooner Hance Lawson, for damages incurred in.
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the sinking of said schooner by the titgboat "Ida Augusta," and
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B. H. Leach, owner of the schooner David N. Taylor, for damages
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incurred by said schooners being run into by the tugboat "Ida
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Augusta," in the Potomac river, on the twenty- seventh day of
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November, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.
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WHEREAS, on November twenty-seventh, A. D. eighteen hundred
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and eighty-nine, the schooner Hance Lawson, owned by Stewart
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H. Evans, of Somerset county, was run into and sunk; and
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schooner David N. Taylor, owned by B. H. Leach, Baltimore,
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Maryland, was run into and greatly damaged by the tugboat
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"Ida Augusta," while said schooner was lawfiilly engaged in
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taking oysters in the Potomac river, and within the limits of
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the State of Maryland; and
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WHEREAS, the said tugboat "Ida Augusta," was acting under
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orders from the authorities of the commonwealth of Virginia ;
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and
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WHEREAS, such action was wholly illegal and unwarranted;
and
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WHEREAS, it is the opinion of this general assembly that the said
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commonwealth of Virginia should at once repair the injuries
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done by the sinking and running into of said schooners so far
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as possible, and repay to said Stewart H. Evans, owner of said
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schooner Hance Lawson, and B. H. Leach, owner of said
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schooner David N. Taylor, the value of said sunken schooner
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and the cargo and the cost of damage done by the running into
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of said schooner David N. Taylor; therefore,
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Be it resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
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governor of this State be requested to bring the subject recited in
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the following preamble, to the attention of the governor of Vir-
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Governor
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ginia, and to request him in the exercise of his good judgment, to
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invite the attention of the General Assembly of Virginia thereto,
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to the end that the said general assembly may consider the matter
and take such action as may to them seem right and just.
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