1845. RESOLUTIONS.

to withhold annually hereafter, the sum of two hundred
dollars from the president and trustees of the Hagerstown
academy, out of the annual donation, which by a reso-
lution number forty-six of December session, eighteen
hundred and eleven, is made payable to the president
and trustees of said academy; and to pay the said sum of
two hundred dollars annually to the trustees of the Clear-
spring academy, in Washington county, to be applied
by the said trustees in promoting the objects of the said
institution.

No. 8.

Passed Jan.

13, 1846.

Resolution in favor of purchasing a Flag for the State.

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the Adjutant General be, and he is hereby authorised and
directed to purchase a flag for the use of the State House,
the cost of which shall not exceed seventy-five dollars,
and to draw on the Treasurer of the Western Shore for
the payment thereof.

No. 9.

Passed Jan.
13, 1846.

Preamble and resolution in relation to the Harbor of the
City of Baltimore.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, under any circumstances it is extremely
desirable that the harbors of our chief seaports should be
in a condition to repel the attack of an enemy by a forti-
fied protection of their most assailable points; and where-
as, at the present crisis it seems to this General Assembly
more than ever demanded, that the Federal Government
should give this protection to the city of Baltimore, now
the third city in the Union; and whereas, the harbor of
that city has but a single fortification — and that too from
its locality and contiguity to the city believed to be to-
tally inadequate to successful defence; while the mouth
of the river Patapsco, which makes the entrance of that
harbor is left wholly without protection, which protection
may be secured most amply by the erection of a Fort at
Sollers' Point Flats; and whereas, favorable reports to