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JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

of Appeals, and has discharged the duties, and is

now acting as said chief judge so designated by the

Governor, and will, on the fourth day of June, in the

year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, " if his

Preamble.

life ds prolonged," attain to the age of seventy

years, when his term of service will expire, unlesa

extended by the General Assembly of this State

by resolution pursuant to the third section of the

fourth article of the constitution; therefore, be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That in view of the ability, integrity, wisdom, ex-

perience and sound legal knowledge of said Hon-

orable James L. Bartol, his term of service as

judge of the Court of Appeals be and the same

Continued in
office.

is hereby extended, and the said Honorable James

L. Bartol be continued in office until the expira-

tion of the term of fifteen years for which he was

duly elected on the said fourth Wednesday of

October, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and

until his successor is elected and qualified.

No. 10.

Joint resolution in relation to a survey by the

General Government of the Wicomico river of

this State.

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the Senators and Representatives of this

State in the Congress of the United States be and

they are hereby requested to introduce and press

Cause a sur-

the passage of a resolution through their bodies,

vey.

requiring the War Department to cause a survey

of the Wicomico river in this State, from its

mouth to the town of Salisbury, to be made with

a view to the improvement of navigation of said

river, and an estimate of the cost of such im-

provement.