JOINT RESOLUTIONS

Assented to by the General Assembly of Maryland, at a Session

begun on, the tenth day of January, 1866, and ended

on the eighth day of February, 1866.

No. 1.

Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly of Maryland. WHEREAS, The Senate and House of Delegates of the General Assembly of Maryland, did by their Joint Resolution on the fourteenth day of Feb- ruary, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty- five, unanimously protest against the authoriza- tion by the Congress of the United States, of any railroad through the State of Maryland, without giving to the Legislature thereof and to all per- sons interested in such projected road, the fullest opportunity of presenting their views in relation thereto, before committees of the two Houses of Congress duly charged with the office of exam- ining the same; and whereas, the Senate and House of Delegates of Maryland, have been in- formed that bills have been introduced into the Congress of the United States, at the present ses- sion thereof, the purpose of which is to authorize the construction of such road or roads, within, this State, without the assent of the General Assembly thereof, or without affording to the

Assented to Jan. 26, 1866.