1841.

RESOLUTIONS.

Field Pieces, (Six Pounders, &c. ) for Captain M. C.
Karney.

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the Adjutant General of Maryland, be authorized. to
make a requisition on the General Government for two-
brass field pieces (six pounders) and fifty artillery swords,
as a part of the State's quota of arms, for the Annapolis
Artillerists, to be delivered to Captain M. C. Karney, or his
successors, as he or they may demand.

Passed Mar.
10, 1842.

No. 13.

Resolution authorizing the Adjutant General to furnish
Captain Samuel Yasle, with Arms, &c.

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the Adjutant General be and he is hereby authorized
to furnish to the order of Captain Samuel Yaste, of the
Catoctin Rangers, of Frederick county, twenty rifles, by
his giving satisfactory security, and returning the old and
useless rifles now in his possession to the armory in Frede-
rick.

Passed Feb.
28, 1842.

No. 14.

Resolutions in relation to the increase of the Navy of the
United States.

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
in the opinion of this General Assembly, the navy of the
United States, is the right arm of our national defence, and
that the utmost vigilance of the national government ought
to be exercised to give it the most vigorous efficiency.
Resolved, That it is the sense of this General Assembly,
that congress should at its present session, make adequate
provision for a more rapid increase of our naval force.
Resolved, That the exposed condition of the Chesapeake
Bay, ought to invite the earnest and immediate attention of
congress to an energetic system of measures for its complete
defence, as imperiously required for the protection of the
interests not only of Maryland, but of the whole Union, par-
ticularly as involving the safely of the national capitol with.