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JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

commissioners, and especially to Dr. W. K. Brooks, of

Johns Hopkins University, for their valuable report.

In our opinion the said report embodies the ablest and

Thanks tender-
ed

most comprehensive discussion of all subjects connected

with the oyster and its propagation that has yet ap-

peared anywhere, as well as a true statement from

actual observation of the condition of the oyster-beds

of Maryland and the remedy therefor.

2. Be it resolved. That the said commissioners be

Commissioners
discharged.

discharged from further consideration of the subject

committed to them.

No. 5.

Joint resolutions in relation to Mason and Dixon's

line.

WHEREAS the citizens on the Mason and Dixon's

line, in Garrett, Allegany and Washington counties,

State of Maryland, are at a loss to know where the

Preamble.

famous Mason and Dixon's line is located, and are

seriously annoyed in ascertaining said line, because of

the indefiniteness of the position of said line and the

absence of any mark locating the same; therefore —

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That for the purpose of relocating and re-estab-

lishing the proper course of said Mason and Dixon's

line, our senators and representatives in Congress are

requested to use their influence in urging the necessity

of an appropriation by the general government for the

purpose of resurveying and locating the said Mason

Re-establish

and Dixon's line by marking said Mason and Dixon's

and locate.

line with suitable stone monuments, with the let-

ters M. and V. between the State of Maryland

and Virginia, M. and P. between Maryland and

Pennsylvania, M. and D. between Maryland and

Delaware, commencing at Fairfax Stone, at the head

waters of the north branch of the Potomac river,

thence running northwardly with Mason and Dixon's

line, until it intersects the eastwardly line dividing the

States of Pennsylvania and Maryland; thence east-

wardly with Mason and Dixon's line, until it inter-