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Passed Jan. 23,
1841.
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Resolution relative to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Company.
Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the Treasurer of the Western Shore proceed forthwith to
call a general meeting of the stockholders of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal Company, at Frederick, upon the
earliest convenient day, in pursuance of the resolution
unanimously adopted for the regulation and government of
said company, by the stockholders thereof, on the tenth
day of July, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, to investi-
gate the affairs and past management of the company, and
to take such further order in the premises as the interests
of the stockholders may require.
No. 8.
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Passed Feb. 9,
1841.
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Preamble and Resolutions in relation to the Six per cent.
Dollar and other Bonds of the State.
WHEREAS, by the annual report of the Treasurer of the
Western Shore, to the Legislature, at December session,
eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, it appears that of the six
per cent, dollar bonds of this State, amounting to eight
millions of dollars, which were issued in pursuance of
chapter three hundred and ninety-five, of the acts of De-
cember session, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and for
which five per cent, sterling bonds of the State have been
substituted, in pursuance of chapter three hundred and
eighty-six, of the acts of December session, eighteen hun-
dred and thirty-eight, there were five and a half millions
then in the Treasury of the Western Shore; and this Gene-
ral Assembly considering it expedient to adopt the said
Treasurer's suggestion, that the said bonds, and also the
certificates of the State, held by the said Treasurer, for
the use of the sinking fund, should be inspected, counted
and destroyed by authority of the Legislature — therefore,
Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
a joint committee of the two houses, to consist of two
members from the House and one from the Senate, be and
they are hereby authorised and directed to receive from
the said Treasurer, and receipt for, examine, count and
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