1847.

RESOLUTIONS.

thorised to sell so much of the furniture in the Govern-
ment House as he may deem useless, and to invest the
proceeds thereof in such furniture as he may think pro-
per.

No. 95.

Passed
Mar. 10, 1848.

Resolution for the delivery of certain Arms, for the use
of a Military Academy in Talbot county.

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the Governor be and he is hereby authorised to issue
from time to time to General Tenth Tilghman, for the
use of the Maryland Military Academy, recently estab-
lished at Oxford, in Talbot county, such arms and ac-
coutrements belonging to the State, as may in the opi-
nion of the Governor be sufficient for the purposes of
said institution, to be returned at any time upon the re-
quisition of the Governor.

No. 96.

Passed
Feb. 29, 1848.

Preamble and resolutions relative to certain dividends
due the State by the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road
Company.

WHEREAS, By Resolution No. 65, of December
session 1846, the Attorney General was directed to in-
stitute suit against the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road
Company, to recover the dividend of fifteen thousand
dollars which had been declared by that company, pay-
able in part in the bonds of said company; and whereas,
it is understood that said suit was brought as directed
by said Resolution, and that the same has been fully
argued in the Court of Appeals at the present term, and
inasmuch as the State has incurred the whole expense
incident to the decision of this question, it is there-
fore,

Resolved, That it would be unjust to the State to take
the bonds of this company for the dividend declared;
provided the State should be entitled to receive said
dividends in money. And whereas, in the view that