RESOLUTIONS.
No. 17.

1836.

Resolution authorising the joint committee on the
Library to procure from London certain Books.

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the joint committee on the Library, be, and they are
hereby authorised to procure from London, the several
books recommended by the Librarian, for the use of the
Library, or such of them as they may think proper,
and that the Treasurer of the Western Shore pay the
cost of the same, on the order of the said joint com-
mittee, or a majority thereof, the cost of the same not
to exceed one hundred dollars.

Passed Feb. 4,
1837.

No. 18.

Preamble and resolutions. relative to a reduction of the
existing duties imposed on the introduction of To-
bacco.

WHEREAS, it is important to the interest and pros-
perity of a large portion of the people of the United
States, and particularly to the people of the States of
Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and Missouri,
that in the future adjustment by Congress of the tariff
system, a just and equal regard should be had to the
article of Tobacco, an agricultural product which has
hitherto been entirely neglected by the Government, as
well in its intercourse with foreign nations as in its
general legislation: and -whereas, the high duties which
are imposed by most foreign nations upon the introduc-
tion of Tobacco within their ports, operate as a pro-
hibition upon its consumption, and consequently tend
to the manifest injury of the grower, by diminishing
its value: and whereas, it is believed that arrange-
ments may be made, and negotiations had, with most
foreign governments, by which the article of tobacco
may be more freely admitted, and with less duty than
is at present imposed, if a proper and reasonable de-
gree of solicitude is entertained and manifested by the
government in its diplomatic relations with those na-
tions: and, whereat, it is but just and reasonable, that

Passed Feb. 4,
1837.