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Resolution in favor of Ann Mary Cockrane.
Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the Treasurer of the Western Shore of Maryland be,
and he is hereby authorised and directed to pay Ann Mary
Cockrane, of Frederick county, widow of James Cock-
rane, who was a private in the Revolutionary war, or to
her order, in quarter yearly payments, commencing from
the first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-se-
ven, a sum of money equal to the half pay of a private
during her life, as further remuneration for the services
of her deceased husband.
No. 21.
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Passed Jan.
18, 1847.
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Preamble and resolutions in relation to Foreign Duties on
Tobacco.
WHEREAS, it is rcndeicd eminently essential and high-
ly important in view of the distressed condition of the
tobacco interest of the State of Maryland, Virginia, Mis-
souri, Ohio and Kentucky, that an effort should be made
by the Government of the United States to procure a re-
duction of high duties imposed by foreign nations upon
its introduction into their ports, which operate as a pro-
hibition upon its consumption, and consequently tend to
the manifest injury of the grower by diminishing its value;
and whereas, it is believed that arrangements may be
made, and negotiations had with foreign governments, by
which the article of tobacco may be more freely admit-
ted, and with less duty than at present imposed, if a pro-
per and reasonable degree of solicitude is entertained and
manifested by the Government in its diplomatic relations
with those nations, and which it is but just and proper
that other nations should extend to agricultural products
of the United States, which partake in their character of
the nature of luxuries, the same liberality and favor that
the United States are now extending towards articles of
the same nature of foreign growth or manufacture; and
whereas, an unfavorable discriminating tax is imposed up-
on the staple production of this State by those countries
with which our most intimate commercial relation exist
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Passed Feb.
18, 1847.
Preamble.
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