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habitants thereof; and whereas the Congress of the United
States exercises exclusive legislation over said district and
is therefore interested in its completion; and whereas the
State of Maryland is unable to complete said work to Cum-
berland, a point which must be reached before said work
can be rendered productive — therefore,
Be it resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That our Senators in Congress, and our representatives be
requested to introduce and vote for a bill authorising and
directing that the stock held by the United States in said
work be transferred to the State of Maryland on condition
that the State of Maryland cause said work to be opened
to Cumberland in five years from the date of said transfer.
Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be request-
ed to transmit to our representation in congress a copy of
the aforegoing preamble and resolution.
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Passed Fob.
11, 1843.
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No. 34.
Resolution requesting our Representatives in Congress to
use their exertions to have refunded to the State of Ma-
ryland twenty-seven thousand dollars, with interest, ad-
vanced to the General Government in seventeen hundred
and ninety.
In the journal of proceedings of the House of Delegates
of seventeen hundred and ninety, we find the following pre-
amble and resolution.
WHEREAS by a resolution of the General Assembly of
Virginia, passed on the tenth clay of December, seventeen
hundred and eighty-nine, it was proposed to the General
Assembly of Maryland that the Assembly of Virginia will
pass an act for advancing a sum of money not less than one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars to the use of the ge-
neral government, to be applied in such manner as Congress
shall direct, towards erecting public buildings; the assembly
of Maryland, on their part, advancing a sum not less than
three-fifths of the sum advanced by the said assembly of
Virginia, which resolution came so late to the last general
assembly of Maryland that it could not be acted upon, and
was therefore referred this present session.
AND WHEREAS this General Assembly doth highly ap-
prove of the object of the said resolution, and is desirous
of doing every thing required on the part of Maryland for
carrying the same into effect.
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