RESOLUTIONS.

1841.

in any State, and carried to another State, the owner may
demand the slave as his property, and the State in which
the act is committed, may demand the person committing
it as a fugitive from justice; and it is the duty of the
State on which the demand may be made, to surrender
such person for trial.
Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor be re-
quested to cause a copy of this report and resolutions to
be transmitted to the Governors of the several States.
WILLIAM H. TUCK, Chairman.

No. 10.

Resolution repealing Resolution, number forty-seven, pass-
ed at December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-
nine.

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the resolution passed at December session, eighteen hun-
dred and thirty-nine, numbered forty-seven, providing for
a classification of the laws, be and the same is hereby
repealed.

No. 11.

Passed April 6,
1841.

Resolution in favor of the State's claim against the United
States' government for expenses incurred during the late
war.

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
me Senators and Representatives of this State in the Con-
gress of the United States, be requested to use their best
exertions, to effect a final adjustment ami full payment of
the claim of this State against the United States, for ex-
penses incurred in behalf of the United States during the
last war, at the approaching extra session of Congress, and
that the President of the Senate, and Speaker of the House
of Delegates, be requested to communicate to each of our
Senators and Representatives in Congress, a copy of this
resolution.

Passed April 6,
1841.