JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

805

No. 17.

JOINT RESOLUTION.

WHEREAS the General Assembly of the State of

Maryland, at the January session, in the year eigh-

teen hundred and eighty, chapter thirty-six, passed

an act concerning the taking and catching of

oysters in the Potomac river; and chapter four

hundred and forty-five of the acts passed at Jan-

uary session, eighteen hundred and eighty, enti-

tled "An act to protect oysters in the waters of

Preamble.

Pocomoke Sound, in Somerset county;" and

whereas the act requires the assent of the Gene-

ral Assembly of the State of Virginia, under the

compact between the States of Maryland and Vir-

ginia, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-

five, that the same may become effective; there-

fore

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That five members of this General Assembly,

two on the part of the Senate and three on the

part of the House, be appointed by the presiding

officer of each body respectively, who shall, as

soon as practicable, confer with the General As-

sembly of Virginia touching the matter enacted

in said act of eighteen hundred and eighty, and

Committee

request their assent thereto at their present ses-

appointed to

sion, if the said committee shall deem the said

confer.

laws hereinbefore referred to to be the best for

the oyster interest in this State, and to confer with

the said Legislature upon any other law which

they may deem it necessary to pass for the pro-

tection of oysters in the waters already mentioned,

and report the result of the conference to this

General Assembly.

Resolved, second, That if the said act shall be

assented to by the State of Virginia, and a simi-

lar act be passed by their General Assembly, that

Secure neces-

the Governor of each State, respectively, be re-

sary legisla-

quested to secure the necessary legislation by the

tion.

Congress of the United States, as required by the

Constitution of the United States, to make the

«aid act valid and effective.