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JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
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NO. 11.
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Joint resolution authorizing the Attorney General to
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employ counsel to assist him in the defense of William
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Marsh, a citizen of Maryland, now held by the authorities
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of Virginia for trial for alleged violation of the oyster laws
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of the said State of Virginia.
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WHEREAS, under the compact between the States of Mary-
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land and Virginia, a provision exists, that whenever an
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offense is committed in the waters betweeu the said States,
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where the boundary lines have not been buoyed and
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marked off, the offender shall be tried in the State of which
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he is a citizen ; and
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WHEREAS, on or about the fifth day of January eighteen
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hundred and ninety-one, certain vessels were alleged to
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have been dredging for oysters in Tangier Sound, on which
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account the State of Virginia issued a requisition on the
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Governor of Maryland for one William Marsh, one of the
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alleged offenders ; and
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WHEREAS, the Governor of Maryland honored said requisi-
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tion and delivered the said Marsh to the authorities of
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Virginia for tral ; and
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WHEREAS, the said case is still pending, and in view of
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the fact of such delivery of said Marsh to the State of
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Virginia by the State of Maryland it is proper that the
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State of Maryland should provide proper means of defense
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for its citizens so delivered up to the authorities of sister
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States; therefore,
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Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
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Attorney
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Governor be and he is hereby authorized (if in his judg-
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General to
appear
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ment he deem it advisable) to direct the Attorney General
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of Maryland to appear and defend william Marsh, a citizen
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of Maryland, now held by the authorities of Virginia for
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alleged violation of the oyster laws of the State of Virginia.
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