RESOLUTIONS.

that effects the most beneficial have followed the adoption of the embargo, and they have not failed to attract the
just appreciation of a vast majority of the patriotic people of these United States; and that this legislature are
of the opinion that the said resolutions were founded totally in error, and contrary to the fact.

RESOLVED, That we highly approve of the measures adopted, and the policy pursued, by the late administration.

RESOLVED, That we have the fullest confidence in the patriotism, virtue and wisdom, of the present admini-
stration, and that we freely pledge our support to the general government, upon the adoption of any measures
calculated to protect the rights, or to avenge the wrongs, of our country.

RESOLVED, That for the better repairing and furnishing the government-house, the governor be and he is
hereby authorised and empowered to draw on the treasurer of the western shore for the sum of sixteen hundred
dollars, including the sum of twelve hundred dollars formerly appropriated to this purpose and unexpended, and
the treasurer is hereby authorised and directed to pay the same out of any unappropriated money in the treasury.

Whereas the present relations of the United States of America with the belligerent powers of Europe, five
us but little room to hope that they will speedily abandon those unlawful measures of retaliation on each other,
and of violent and indefensible aggression and encroachment on the rights of neutral states, which they have
adopted, so inimical to the laws of nations and the free navigation of the seas; and our country, free, flourish-
ing and independent, and resting, as the basis of its existence, upon the industry, public spirit and disinterested
patriotism, of its citizens, contains within its bosom the seeds of almost every comfort, convenience and luxury,
of the eastern hemisphere, which, if by careful and tender hands they be nurtured and cultivated, will flourish
into maturity, in the midst of a grateful people, grown by their assistance, and conducted by their prosperity,
to a proud state of perfect and enviable independence on the commerce and manufactures of the nations of
Europe: And whereas it is the indispensable duty of the representatives of an enlightened people, who are
resolved to live or die all free men, to propose such measures, and ena6\ such laws, as will be necessarily con-
ducive to effectuate so desirable an object, and to place themselves, and their constituents, above the odious
necessity of surrendering their dear bought and high prized independence at the altar of foreign usurpation, or
of bowing in humble submission to the lawless and insulting orders in council of Great-Britain, or the unautho-
rised and illegal decrees of the French Emperor: And whereas no measures, which a state legislature could
adopt, would so effectually tend to rear these commendable intentions into actual existence, as a strict attention
to the encouragement and promotion of domestic manufactures; there ore, RESOLVED, by the General Assem-
bly of the state of Maryland, that they will make use of all means in their power, constitutionally, to further,
protect, encourage and promote, the growth and progress of domestic manufactures.

RESOLVED, That for this purpose liberal and effectual measures should be taken to encourage the raising and
improving the breed of sheep.

RESOLVED, That sheep, under the number of twenty, shall be protected in the hands of every individual from
execution or attachment.

RESOLVED, That if forty men, or more, in any company of militia or troop of horse within this state, shall
cloath themselves in a full uniform of woollen cloth of the manufacture of this state, to be certified to the go-
vernor and council by the captain of the troop or company, and commanding officer of the extra battalion or
regiment to which such troop or company may belong, they shall be completely armed and accoutred at the ex-
pense of the state; provided, that sufficient security be given to the governor and council for the safe keeping
of such arms, and their return when required.

RESOLVED, That each member or the general assembly who shall appear at the next session in a suit of wool-
len cloth, of the manufacture of this state, shall have his name enrolled on the journals as a patron of domestic
manufactures.

RESOLVED, That it be recommended to the good people of this state to cloath themselves in the domestic-
manufactures of the country.

RESOLVED, That the amendment proposed by the legislature of the commonwealth of Massachusetts to the
constitution of the United States, on the sixteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and nine, so as to make it
unlawful to lay an embargo, or to prohibit or suspend commerce, For a longer period than until the expiration of
thirty days from the commencement of the session of congress next succeeding that session in which such law
shall have been enacted, be and the same is hereby disapproved by the legislature of this state; and that our
senators in congress be instructed, and our representatives be requested, and they are hereby instructed and re-
quested, to oppose the said amendment.

RESOLVED, That the governor of this state be and he is hereby requested to transmit to each of the senators
and representatives in congress from this state a copy of these resolutions, and also to the executive of each
state, with a request that they be submitted to the legislature thereof.

Whereas the unexampled conduct of Francis James Jackson, late minister plenipotentiary of his Britannic ma-
jesty near the United States, has induced the president to make known, that no further communications will be
received from him: And whereas the general assembly of Maryland, duly appreciate the correctness of such pro-