RESOLUTIONS.

No. 48:

1832.

Resolution relative to the State Map.

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the Governor and Council be, and they are hereby author-
ised to appoint a competent Engineer, whose duty it shall
be to examine and collect all the information, plats, and
reports of surveys, for Canals or Rail Roads, or other pub-
lic works, which have been made by or under the authority
of this State, or any company incorporated by the State, or
under the authority of the corporation of Baltimore; and
the said Engineer shall make and report to the Governor
and Council, before the next session of the General As-
sembly, a plan and drawing for a complete map of Mary-
land, and such portions of the adjacent States, as may be
necessary to show the positions of Maryland, in reference to
the great valleys and streams in her immediate vicinity the
practicable routes for plans of internal improvement; and
the said Engineer shall make such further examinations
and surveys as may be requisite, for the purpose of exhibit-
ing the prominent geographical and topographical features
of the country; and also to collect such statistical informa-
tion as will be useful, and is generally exhibited on modern
improved maps; and the Governor and Council shall allow
such reasonable compensation for the services to be ren-
dered, under this resolution, as in their judgment may be

Passed Mar. 6, 1833

No. 49.

Resolution in favor of Moses Orme, of Anne-Arundel coun-
ty.

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
Treasurer of the Western Shore, pay to Moses Orme, of
Anne-Arundel county, a soldier of the revolutionary war,
or to his order during life, in quarter yearly payments, a
sum of money equal to the half pay of a private, in consi-
deration of the services rendered by him during the said
war.

Passed March 5.