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JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

restoration of Samuel Chase Barney, ex-Lieutenant
of the United States Navy, to the " Retired List "

of said navy.

No. 8.

Resolved by the Senate and Souse of Delegates, That

the whole subject of the relations existing between

Exercise dis
cretion.

the Annapolis and Elkridge Railroad Company
and the State be referred to the Attorney General,
and that he be instructed to take such action in

the premises as he, in the exercise of his discre-

tion, may deem best calculated to promote the

interests 'of the State.

No. 9.

Authorizing judicial proceedings to give effect

to the electoral vote of Maryland.

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the Attorney-General of the State be and he

is hereby instructed, in case Congress shall provide

for expediting the action, to exhibit a bill in the

Supreme Court of the United States, on behalf of

the State of Maryland, with proper parties thereto,
setting forth the fact that due effect has not been

given to the electoral vote cast by this State on the

Exhibit bill.

6th day of December, 1876, by reason of fraudu-

lent returns made from other States and allowed

to be counted provisionally, by the Electoral Com-

mission, and subject to judicial revision ; and pray-
ing said court to make the revision contemplated

by the act establishing said commission; and upon

such revision to declare the returns from the States

of Louisiana and Florida, which were counted for

Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler,

fraudulent and void, and that the legal electoral