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JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

life is prolonged, attain the age of seventy years

on thirteenth day of October, in the year

eighteen hundred and eighty-two, when his term

Preamble.

of service will expire unless it be extended by the

General Assembly by resolution pursuant to the

third section of the fourth article of the Consti-

tution; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That in view of the ability, experience, integrity

and sound legal knowledge of the said Honorable
George William Brown, and his unimpaired ca-

Term of ser-

pacity to discharge the duties of his office, his

vice extended.

term of service as Chief Judge of the Supreme

Bench of Baltimore city be and the same is hereby

extended, and he is hereby continued in his said

office until the expiration of fifteen years from the

time of his election and until his successor is

elected and qualified.

No. 4.

JOINT RESOLUTION.

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the resolutions passed by the General As-

sembly of Maryland at the January session, 1876,

instructing the Senators from the State of Mary-

Rescinded.

land in Congress, and requesting the Representa-
tives from the State of Maryland in Congress, to

exert their influence in removing the deflectors

constructed at the mouth of the Susquehanna

river, be and the same are hereby rescinded.

No. 5.

JOINT RESOLUTION.

WHEREAS the navigation of the Susquehanna

river and Chesapeake bay above and below the

Preamble.

city of Havre-de-Grace, Harford county, 'Mary-

land, are seriously obstructed by shoals, which se-