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JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

No. 2.

Approving the act of eighteen hundred and eighty-

two, chapter three hundred and sixty-eight, entitled

"An act to authorize the County Commissioners of

Montgomery county to subscribe to the stock of

turnpike companies in said county."

WHEEEAS the General Assembly of the State of

Maryland, at the session begun in January, eighteen
hundred and eighty-two, passed an act, chapter three

hundred and sixty-eight, entitled "An act to authorize

the county commissioners of Montgomery county to

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subscribe to the stock of turnpike companies in said

county; and, whereas, all the requirements of the

constitution of the state, section fifty-four, article

three, with regard to the publication of such laws

have been complied with, and the facts certified to

according to law; now, therefore —

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That the aforesaid act, chapter three hundred

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and sixty-eight, be approved as passed; and —

Be it resolved, That his Excellency, the Governor of

the state, be requested to send a copy of these resolu-

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tions, with the seal of the state affixed thereto, to the

county commissioners of Montgomery county.

No. 3.

WHEREAS the State of Maryland did, in the year
seventeen hundred and ninety, advance the sum of
seventy- two thousand dollars ($72,000) to the use of
the General Government, to be applied in such
manner as Congress shall direct, towards erecting

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public buildings; and, whereas, the General Assem-
bly did, on the eleventh day of February, eighteen
hundred and forty-three, by resolution, request our
then representatives in Congress to obtain the pass-
age of a law refunding said sum, with the interest
thereon, to the state; and, whereas, the said sum of
money so as aforesaid advanced to the Government .