918

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

hereby authorized to destroy all certificates of
stocks of the Maryland Hospital loan, amount-

Destroy cer-
tificates.

ing to four hundred and sixty-five thousand dol-
lars, and coupon bonds of the Deaf and Dumb
Asylum loan, amounting to one hundred and
twenty-one thousand dollars, now in his hands
for the use of the sinking funds above named,
in the presence of Philip D. Laird and John
Hubner, committee on the part of the house of
delegates, and James J. Lindsay, committee on
the part of the senate, and their certificate, in
writing to that effect shall be a full discharge
of the treasurer.
Resolved further, That the comptroller of the

Transfer
stocks and
bonds.

treasury and treasurer be authorized to transfer
whatever stocks and bonds remain in the sink-
ing funds to the credit of said Deaf and Dumb
Asylum loan and said Maryland Hospital loan,
as follows : Fifty-seven thousand eight hundred
and eighteen dollars and sixty-eight cents to the
credit of the free school fund, and the balance
to the credit of the defence redemption loan
fund...

No. 7.

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That whereas the supreme court of the
United States and the supreme court of the Dis-
trict of Columbia, have declared the license tax

Null and void.

of the District of Columbia, exacted from non-
resident traders throughout the United States,
unconstitutional, null and void, that we regard
the claims of the citizens of Maryland, whole-
sale dealers and manufacturers, who have
united with others throughout the trade centers
of the country, and petitioned the congress of the
United States for the repeal and the refunding
of the moneys exacted from such non-residents
for the sale of goods therein by sample or other-
wise, to be equitable, just and constitutional;
and that the bill introduced for that purpose by
the Honorable Isidor Rayner ought to be
passed, and we ask the earnest advocacy and