RESOLUTIONS. 1836

be difficult and dangerous, and at inclement seasons
impassible; and whereas, the destruction of said bridge
would render the navigation of the Nanticoke at that
place very hazardous by reasons of the piles which
would remain, unless removed at great public expense;
and whereas this State owns one third of the stock in
the said bridge which will become wholy unavailable,
and worthless, unless the repairs are kept up; and
whereas, there is now due this State dividends already
declared, and in the hands of the said bridge company,
but not called for, to the amount of six hundred dol-
lars or thereabout; and whereas, the said company are
unable to repair said Bridge without the aid of the
State, and will be enabled to do so if the State will re-
linquish the said dividends now declared and due, and
such as may become due on or before the first day of
September, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight;—There-
fore,

Resolved, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the dividends now due this State from the Nanti-
coke bridge company, be, and the same are hereby
relinquished to aid in repairing the said bridge,-and
the said company are hereby authorized, and required
to apply the same towards the repair of the said bridge.

	No. 15.
	Preamble and resolution relating to the Survey of the Navigable Rivers immediately above Watkins' Point, and of so much of Tangier Sound, &c. WHEREAS, the rivers which enter into Tangier Sound, a short distance above Watkins' Point, are ac- ceptable during the .greater part of the winter for ves- sels of small draft,, and large quantities of timber and produce of various kinds are carried from them; and whereas, during the winter months, while other great sources of supply are closed, some of the Northern and Southern cities could be supplied with the very impor- tant articles of fuel, grain and other articles, at ad- vanced prices, to the manifest advantage to that sec- tion of the country, and to the great encouragement of the coasting tonnage, if vessels capable of withstanding	Passed Feb. 4, 1837.