RESOLUTIONS.                                    1844.

protection of the investments of this State in the loan of
the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Rail Road
Company, and for settling the difficulties between said
Rail Road Company and the Chesapeake and Delaware
Canal Company, " AND WHEREAS, the said act is not made
to depend in any manner on the assent or concurrence of
the Legislature of Maryland, and is in its provisions, in
the apprehension of this General Assembly, calculated to
have an injurious effect upon the public interest, if accept-
ed by the companies therein named, or any of them—Now,
therefore,

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the Attorney General of this State, be and he is hereby di-
rected to examine all the various acts of the Legislatures
of the several States of Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylva-
nia, relating in any manner to the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore Rail Road Company, or to the New Castle
and Frenchtown Turnpike and Rail Road Company, or to
the Chesapeake and Deleware Canal Company, and also, to

procure if in his power, copies of any convention or article
of union between the said Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore Rail Road Company, and the said New Castle
and Frenchtown Turnpike and Rail Road Company, and
if in his opinion the acceptance of said act of the Legisla-
ture of Delaware by said last named companies, or by
either of them, would be in violation of the charters of the
said companies or company so accepting said act, or if
any act or acts be done by said companies, or either of
them, under authority of said act, if accepted, which in his
opinion, would be in violation of the charter or charters of
any one of said companies respectively, he shall forthwith
proceed in such court or courts, and in such manner as in
his judgment, will be apt and effectual to restrain such acts,
and to procure a forfeiture of charier or charters of such
companies or company.

And be it further resolved, That the Attorney General,
be requested to transmit to his Excellency the Governor,
to be communicated to the next General Assembly, his
opinion in writing upon the acts of Assembly, and conven-
tion or articles aforesaid, and more particularly to state his
opinion as to the right of said canal company under its
charter, to carry passengers through said canal; and also,
to state whether it is in the power of the Legislature of
Delaware, to alter, change, or modify in any respect, the
charter of said company, without the assent of the Legisla-
ture of this State, and the Legislature of the State of Penn-
sylvania.

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