RESOLUTIONS.

1847.

behalf of the defendant by two counsel, and it is there-
fore proper that counsel should be employed to appear
with the Attorney General on the part of the State; and
whereas, in the trial of said cause in Baltimore county
court the Attorney General was aided by I. Nevitt
Steele, his deputy in that court — Therefore,
Be it resolved by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That I. Nevitt Steele be and he is hereby au-
thorised and requested to unite with the Attorney
General in the argument of said cause in the Court of
Appeals.

No. 18.

Resolution in favor of John M. Brewer, Deputy Attor-
ney General for Allegany county.

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the Governor be and he is hereby authorised and di-
rected to pay out of any monies in the treasury not other-
wise appropriated, to John M. Brewer, 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 Allegany county court, in which
the interests of the State were deeply involved, and
questions of vital consequence to Maryland were set-
tled.

No. 19.

Passed
Jan. 27, 1848.

Preamble and resolutions, approving of Mr. Asa Whit-
ney's Plan of a Rail Road to connect the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans.

WHEREAS, The construction of a Rail Road across
the Continent of North America, would make the United
States the great highway between Europe and the po-
pulous and wealthy Empires of Asia; would greatly fa-
cilitate our own intercourse with these regions; would
tend to consolidate our Union; would connect and bind
Oregon and the Pacific coast to us, and would give a
fresh impulse to our great agricultural, manufacturing

Passed
Jan. 27, 1848.