RESOLUTIONS.

life, the half pay of a private, in consideration of services
rendered during the revolutionary war.

No. 16.

1840.

Resolution relative to a piece of Ordnance presented by
the Reverend Joseph Carberry.

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the State will accept the piece of ordnance presented by
the Reverend Joseph Carberry, and that his Excellency
the Governor be requested to communicate this resolution
to him, and cause the same to be transported to the seat of
government and placed at some suitable place within the
entrance hall of the State House, and to draw on the trea-
sury for such amount as may be necessary to defray the
expenses thereof.

No. 17.

Passed Mar. 9,
1841.

Resolution in favor of the Medical Faculty of the Univer-
sity of Maryland.

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the interest now due by the Medical Faculty of the Uni-
versity of Maryland on the loan of eighteen hundred and
twenty-one, chapter eighty-eight, section seven, be remit-
ted, and that they be released from future payments of in-
terest upon said loan.

No. 18.

Passed Mar. 5,
1841.

Preamble and Resolution in relation to Steam Batteries.

WHEREAS, from the geographical position of the sea-
board of this State, whereby it is imminently exposed to
the attack of a foreign enemy, and difficult, if not impossi-
ble, to be securely protected by any system of fortification;
and whereas, from these considerations, it is of high impor-
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Passed Mar. 2,
1841.