JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Sandy Point, and also along the Western Shore of Kent Island
opposite said named points, by proper defences, either perma-
nent, to be established upon, or floating, to be established at
said points and shores, as they now exist, or by proper and
adequate extensions thereof, either by piling or by stone walls,
or by other proper methods along and across and over the shoals
opposite to and adjoining said points and shore, as all the same
now exist, and shown by chart No. 135 of the Coast and Geo-
detic Survey of Chesapeske Bay, so as to secure a protection
as near perfect as may be for the due defence of that portion
of the Chesapeake Bay which is situate between the Western
Shore of Kent Island and said named points opposite thereto
on the Western Shore of Chesapeake Bay, and which defences
are believed to be necessary in order to properly protect the
Capital of this State and the Capital of the United States, and
also the approaches to the city of Baltimore via the Chesa-
peake Bay.

No. 3.
Joint Resolutions and Memorial of the General Assembly of
the State of Maryland to Congress to improve the Severn
River, in Maryland, and to establish a National Naval Dry
Dock thereon.
WHEREAS, Under date of November 15, 1897, the Secretary

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of the Navy, in his annual report to the President of United
States for the year 1897, recited that the most urgent need of
the naval service, on that date, was an increase of government
docking facilities, the lack of which he declared Congress
should remedy at the earliest moment possible, because the
necessity therefor was imperative; and also recited that the
government then owned only eleven dry docks, nine on the
Atlantic and two on the Pacific, seven being of timber and
four of stone, and that very few of the larger docks on the
Atlantic were in a condition proper for effective use, so much
so in August, 1897, as to necessitate his sending the U. S.
Battleship Indiana to Halifax, Nova Scotia, to be there docked
in an English dry dock, of which he further recited that Great
Britain then owned 611, twenty eight of which accommodate
first class battle-ships, fourteen of which ships could at one
time be docked in the two dock yards of Chatham and Ports-
mouth, England, alone (at which two yards all the dry docks
are of stone) ; and
WHEREAS, Under date of December 6, 1897, the President
of the United States, in his regular message to Congress,

Preamble.