Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                 1627

Whereas, It would be highly appropriate if a special commemora-
tive postal stamp were issued to signify the importance of this dual
anniversary for two schools in the great University of Maryland;
now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Post-
master General be urged and requested to issue a special commemora-
tive stamp noting the One Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary of the
School of Medicine of the University of Maryland and the One
Hundredth Anniversary of the Maryland Agricultural College, both
now being merged in the University of Maryland; and be it further

Resolved, That the Secretary of State be instructed to send copies
of this Resolution under the Great Seal of the State of Maryland to
the Postmaster General of the United States, the Vice President of
the United States as presiding officer in the Senate of the United
States, the Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Congress
of the United States, each member of the Maryland delegation in the
Congress of the United States, the Governor of Maryland, the Presi-
dent of the University of Maryland and the University of Maryland
Alumni Club of Baltimore, 3 East 25th Street, Baltimore 18, Mary-
land.

Approved April 10,1957.

No. 17
(Senate Joint Resolution 30)

Senate Joint Resolution requesting the proper preservation of the so-
called "Middle Point" marking the boundary between Maryland
and Delaware.

Within the boundary lines of Wicomico County, there are two
ancient stone monuments placed at the "Middle Point" of the his-
torical Mason-Dixon Survey circa 1760 and 1768.

These monuments and the Mason-Dixon Line itself are enduring
testimony to the long continued, and at times acrimonious, contro-
versy between the Lords Baltimore and the William Penn family over
the determination of boundary lines between the colonies of Mary-
land and Pennsylvania, and also between Maryland and what is now
the State of Delaware. This controversy was dramatic in nature and
highly momentous in result. Large areas of territory were involved
in these disputes before the Mason-Dixon Line, which is the most
famous State boundary line in the United States, was finally agreed
upon prior to the Revolutionary War.

The far reaching nature of this controversy is evidenced by the
fact that had Lord Baltimore's contention been sustained as to what

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