RESOLUTIONS.

1843

each county, and Howard District, by persons properly
authorised and qualified, or elsewhere, the coupons of in-
terest, and the certificates of interest to be issued by the
commissioner of loans under the act passed at December
session eighteen hundred and forty-two, chapter one hun-
dred eighty-nine, due upon the bonds and stock of the
State, standing to the credit of the sinking iund, and that
the proceeds of such sales be invested by the said Trea-
surer, in the stock or bonds of the State for the benefit of
said fund.
Resolved further, That the coupons, and certificates of
interest, so directed to be sold shall be receivable in pay-
ment of the direct and income tax, levied, or to be levied
for the use of the State, as provided in the first section of
the said act of December session, eighteen hundred forty-
two, chapter one hundred and eighty-nine.

No. 21.

Resolution in favor of Jacob Charles.

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the Treasurer of the Western Shore, pay to Jacob Charles,
the sum of thirteen dollars and thirty-three cents, being the
amount advanced by said Charles to Stephen Phillips, a
soldier of the revolutionary war.

Passed Feb.
15, 1844.

No. 22.

Resolution in favor of Hanson B. Pigman.

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the Governor, be and he is hereby authorised and directed
to pay out of any monies in the Treasury, not otherwise
appropriated to Hanson B. Pigman Esq., deputy attorney
general of Allegany county, a reasonable compensation for
the services which he lately rendered to the State, in the
trial of a cause in the Court of Appeals, in which the in-
terests of the State were deeply involved and questions of
vital consequence to Maryland settled.

Passed Feb.
17, 1844.