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Resolution in favor of Jonathan Meredith.
WHEREAS, the Governor of Maryland. by and with the
advice of the Senate, in virtue of resolution seventy-nine
of December session eighteen hundred and thirty-seven,
did appoint Jonathan Meredith, esquire, a commissioner
to make such arrangement as might be necessary to refer the
question involved in said resolution to the decision of the
Supreme Court of the United Slates; and whereas, said
commissioner has been eminently successful in said ar-
rangement— Therefore,
Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the Governor of this Stale, be and he is hereby authorised
to draw upon the treasurer of the Western Shore for such
sum of money as may remiburse the expenses of the com-
missioner, and compensate him for his services.
Resolved further, That the Governor of the State, be
and he is hereby authorised to associate with Jonathan
Meredith, Esquire, in the argument of the constitutional
questions involved before the tribunals of Pennsylvania
and the Supreme Court of the United States, such other
counsel as he may select, and to draw upon the treasurer
of the Western Shore for such amount as he may deem a
just compensation for their professional services.
No. 21.
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Passed Mar. 7,
1840.
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A resolution in favor of Thomas Smith, of Talbot County.
Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the treasurer of the Western Shore, be and he is hereby
directed to pay to Thomas Smith, of Talbot county, the
sum of ten dollars, for one quarters pension, due his late
father Charles Smith, of said county, at the time of his
death, as a revolutionary pensioner.
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Passed Mar. 7,
1840.
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