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manner as such property is now kept, maintained and preserved for the
benefit of the nation by the Congress of the United States.

Be it further resolved, That the Secretary of State be and he is here-
by requested to transmit under seal of this State a copy of the fore-
going memorial to each of the Senators and Representatives now in Con-
gress from Maryland, with the request that they lay the same before
their respective Houses in support of the measure hereinbefore men-
tioned.

JOINT RESOLUTION No. 14.

Joint resolution and memorial of the General Assembly of the State of
Maryland, to the Congress of the United States, for the passage of a
bill to reimburse and indemnify the Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick
Maryland.

Whereas, qn July 9, 1864, during the progress of the late Civil War,
the town of Frederick, iu the State of Maryland, was seized by the Con-
federate Army under Gen. Jubal A. Early, and the said army, by way of
retaliation against the Government of the United States for the
destruction of property by the Union armies in the Confederate States
of America, exacted from said town, under pain of the pillage and
burning thereof, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars; and

Whereas the State of Maryland had faithfully satisfied all the requisi-
tions made upon it by the Government of the United States in the prose-
cution of said war, and was entitled to receive for itself and the said
town of Frederick from the Government of the United States protection
against the invasions and aggressions of the Confederate Armies, and
the said Government, after having taken and removed the home defense
forces of said State beyond its limits and control, failed to comply with
the request of said State to provide for the defense thereof and of the
said town of Frederick as one of its municipalities against the invasions
of the said Confederate Army under General Early, and by reason of
such failure of the Government of the United States the said invasion
was accomplished and the said town of Frederick was despoiled as
aforesaid by way of retaliation against the said Government; and

Whereas the said municipality, as a direct result of said exaction,
has ever since been under the necessity of carrying a large bonded in-
debtedness, which has been a continuous and is a present hardship to
the citizens of said town, and it Is just and equitable that the Govern-
ment of the United States should assume the loss suffered by said town
by reason of its loyalty to the Union, and on account of a policy of
retaliation directed against the said Government; and, therefore, be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Senate and
the House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Con-
gress assembled, be and they are hereby respectfully requested to pass a
bill appropriating the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, to be paid to
the Mayor and Alderman of Frederick, in the State of Maryland, as a re-
imbursement and indemnity for the loss sustained by the said munici-
pality through the said reprisal and execution of the said Confederate
Army of invasion.

Be it further resolved, That the Secretary of the State be and he is
hereby requested to transmit, under seal of this State, a copy of the
aforegoing and memorial to each of the Senators and Representatives
now in Congress from Maryland, with the request that they lay the
same before their respective Houses in support of the measure hereinbe-
fore mentioned.