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JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

accrne to our people, be proper to pledge for the State of
Maryland the dedication of the necessary land to the United
States Government for the purposes required. As will be
seen, by the accompanying document, a bill appropriating one
million tive hundred thousand dollars for this purpose has
already been introduced in the Senate of the United States by
Senator Gorinan, and I deem it of peculiar importance that
your bodies should take prompt and appropriate steps looking
to the accomplishment of the desired object.
Respectfully submitted,

LLOYD LOWNDES, Governor.
and

Preamble.

WHEREAS, All said matters so reported by the Secretary of
the Navy to the President, and by the President so reported
to Congress, and so recited in said Senate Resolution, Senate
Bill and Memorial, and in said special message of the Governor
of this State, are of the highest State and National import-
ance, entitling them to the serious attention and immediate
action of the General Assembly of Maryland and of Congress ;
therefore,

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That

Requested to
take imme-
diate action
in the
matter.

the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United
States of America, in Congress assembled, be and they are
hereby respectfully requested to take immediate action in
the matter of the said needed improvement of the Severn
river, and of the establishment thereon of a National
Naval Dry Dock, as described and designated in said
Senate Bill No. 2778, and in said Senate Document No. 21,
Fifty-fifth Congress, second session, and to this end that Con-
gress,, now in session, may make an appropriation of money
adequate to the due completion of said improvement of said
river, and of the construction of said National Navy Dry
Dock, as the same are recited in said Senate Bill No. 2778,
and in said Senate Document No. 21.

Urge upon
Congress
the due Im-
portance of
said works.

Be it further resolved. That the Senators and Representatives
now in Congress from this State be and they are hereby re-
spectfully requested to zealously urge upon their respective
Houses the due importance of said national works, as recited
in said Senate Bill No. 2778, and in all proper ways to aid in
securing during the Fifty-fifth Congress an appropriation of
money adequate to the final completion of all thereof.
Be it still further resolved, That in view of the great
advantage which would accrue to our people, the General