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JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Reports, comprising volumes number twenty-one

and forty-five inclusive; provided that the price

thereof shall not exceed ten dollars per copy ; and

provided further that any three judges of the

Court of Appeals of the State shall certify, under

their hands and seals, that, in their opinion, the

said digest is a faithful digest of the opinions of

said court, and deserves the patronage of the

State. And the Librarian is further authorized

and directed to distribute the same number of

copies of said digest and in the same way as the

copies of the Maryland Reports are now by law

authorized to be distributed, and the residue to

sell or exchange for such other books as may be

required by the State Librarian ; provided, never-

theless, that the said Librarian shall retain thirty-

five copies in said Library for the use thereof.

Be it further resolved, That resolution number

Repealed.

four, passed at January session, eighteen hundred

and seventy, be repealed.

No. 4.

Joint Resolutions in relation to the reduction of

the federal tax on manufactured tobacco.

Whereas tobacco is one of the staple products of

our State, and enters largely into the industries

thereof, whereby it affords the means of employ-

ment to many of our people ; and whereas the

Preamble.

present rate of federal tax operates injuriously

upon the production, sale and manufacture of

the same —

1st. Be it resolved by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That it is the sentiment of this General As-

Reduction of
federal tax.

sembly that the present rate of federal tax upon
manufactured tobacco, twenty-four cents per pound,