1904.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 1407

JOINT RESOLUTION.

Whereas, It is represented that Fort Frederick,
situated in Washington county, Maryland, is being-
pillaged and is rapidly reaching a state of dilapidation
and ruin; and

Whereas, It is eminently proper that this fortifica-
tion rich in historic lore and the only one of those of
the ante-Revolutionary peiiod left, connecting the
past with the present, should be rescued and preserved;
therefore, be it

Resolved, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
that His Excellency, Governor Edwin Warfield,
Mr. Thomas Leiber Patterson of Cumberland, Mary-
land, Mr. Alexander Armstrong, Jr., and Miss Leonore
Hamilton, of Hagerstown, Maryland, be and they are
hereby appointed a committee to prepare an accurate
plan of Fort Frederick, as originally constructed, and
obtain an estimate of the cost of rebuilding such parts
of the structure as have been torn down and of restor-
ing the whole to its original condition; also to ascer-
tain the probable cost to the State of securing title to
the Fort, and the land purchased by Governor Horatio
Sharp for its use. and to collect all available data as
the history and succession of the title of the same from
the first patent to Col. Thomas Cresap in 1739, and
Peter Johnson in 1743, to the present time, including
survey and plat of the property, all of which proceed-
ings and data the said committee is requested to sub-
mit to the next General Assembly of Maryland, and
the sum of fifty dollars is hereby appropriated to de-
fray the expenses of said commission.

Which was read the second time and passed by yeas
and nays as follows:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs.

Speaker, Ray, Roth,
Atkinson, Tighe, Bouchet,
Atwell, Wells, Durham,
Downs, Walls, Grant,
Duvall, Butler, Linthicum,
Lowman, Carey, Godwin,
Smoot, Dennis, Miller,