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Brownmg, as heir at law of a former proprie-
tary, whilst Maryland was a British province-
And we have the pleasure to inform you, that
the suit against the venerable Charles Car-
roll, of Carrollton, now the only surviving
signer of the Declaration, of Independence, (by
the establishment of which, in our opinion, the
claim was forever barred and cut off,) was
brought to an issue in March last, and the judg-
ment of the supreme court finally pronounced
against the claimant, upon principles that ap-
ply to, and protect every other landholder in
Maryland. The pretended claim of the repre-
sentatives of Mrs. Browning, may, therefore,
be considered as at rest, and the landholders of
the state freed from any farther vexation there-
by

The high importance of the principles in-
volved in the claim, as well as its great amount
induced us to select two of the most eminent
members of the legal profession to resist it; and
we were gratified to learn that they fully sus-
tained, on that occasion, their exalted reputa-
tions.

By authority of resolution, No. 27, Roger
B. Taney and Reverdy Johnson, Esquires,
have been selected and employed by us, as

counsel on the part of the state, to aid in the
protecution of the suit pending in the supreme

court of the United Stats, against Alexan-
der Brown, and others, for a violation of the
act of assembly, entitled, "asupplement to the
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