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JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

No. 9.

WHEREAS a large number of the best citizens of Cecil

and Kent counties of Maryland have, by their peti-

tion to this present general assembly, prayed the same

to ask the Congress of the United States to appropri-

ate a sufficient sum of money to have Sassafras river,

between said counties, surveyed, with reference to

Preamble.

widening and deepening the channel of said river

from the bridge at Georgetown to the village of Sassa-

fras, and the appropriation of a sum of money not

only for said survey, but also for the work necessary

to said widening and deepening, and representing to

said genera] assembly the large advantage which will

accrue to them and the surrounding counties; there-

fore —

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Dele-

gates of Maryland, now in session at Annapolis, in

said State, That the senators and members of the

house of representatives of this state, now assembled

in Congress at Washington, are earnestly requested to

Ask for appro-
priation.

ask from the said Congress such appropriation as to
them shall seem just and proper for the necessary sur-

vey and costs to widen and deepen the channel of

Sassafras river, in this state, from the bridge at

Georgetown to the village of Sassafras, in Kent

county, sufficient in depth to allow the passage of the

ordinary vessels used in the navigation of said river.

No. 10.

Joint resolution in relation to the taking of Oysters in
the Potomac river.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, by official evidence, it appears that the
General Assembly of Virginia passed the act to regu-
late the taking of oysters in the Potomac river, and
that the said act became the law of Virginia on the
thirteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-
four; therefore —