JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

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Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of

Maryland, That our Senators and members of the

House of Representative i n the National Congress be

requested to call the attention of the Secretary of

State and of Congress to these arbitrary arrests

by the authority of the English Government, and

urge an immediate inquiry into the cases of

Messrs. O'Connor, Malone and other citizens of

the United States, and to demand for them, a

Arbitrary

arrests.

epeedy trial or their immediate release, and that

proper steps be taken to protect the rights of

American citizens abroad and the dignity of the

Republic, and to take such other steps as in their

judgment may seem best to secure the trial or re-

lease of our citizens whose health and fortunes

are being injured by their long incarceration;

further —

Resolved, That His Excellency, the Governor of

this State, be directed to send a copy of these

Send copy.

resolutions, under the great seal of the State, to

the Maryland Senators and Representatives.

No. 31.

Joint resolution requiring the State Librarian to

furnish certain books to the Circuit Court and

Orphans' Court for Calvert county.

WHEREAS, by a recent fire in Prince Frederick,

the court house of Calvert county and the library

therein were totally destroyed, whereby great in-

Preamble.

convenience will result to the courts there held ;

therefore, be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the State Librarian be and he is hereby di-

rected to furnish immediately for the use of the

Circuit Court for said county, a copy of each of

the " Maryland Reports," beginning with the

Directed to
furnish.

earliest, so far as it is possible, two copies each of

the " State Digests; " two copies of the " Code

of Laws," both general and local; one copy of

the " State Constitution; " two copies of Win-