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JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

No. 18.

Joint resolution in reference to a survey of Mono-

kin river.

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 respective

vey.

bodies, requiring the War Department to cause a

survey of Monokin river in this State, from its

mouth up to Princess Anne, to be made with a

view to the improvement of its navigation and an

estimate of the cost of such improvement.

No. 19.

JOINT RESOLUTION.

Resolved, That our Senators and Representa-

tives in the Congress of the United States be and

they are hereby requested to secure the return to
the State of Maryland of the sum of seventy-two

Secure the

thousand dollars advanced under the joint resolu-

return.

tion of seventeen hundred and ninety by the

State to the Federal Government, for the purpose

of erecting public buildings at the city of Wash-

ington, with interest thereon from the date of

payment.

No. 20.

WHEREAS it has been represented to this Gen-

eral Assembly that Mr. Dennis 11. O'Connor and

a Mr. Malone, citizens of this State, have been

arbitrarily arrested in Ireland and hurriedly thrust

Preamble.

into prison without a hearing and without any

opportunity to answer or refute the charges

against them, or to consult friends or counsel, and

that other American citizens have been subjected

to like treatment; therefore, be it