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Resolutions relative to arrears due the State of Ma-
ryland by the United States for and on account of
advances and expenditures during the War of
1812, with England.
Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That whereas, it appears that this State has long
been urging upon the Congress of the United States
the payment of a considerable sum of money, justly
due to her on account of arrears and interest upon
expenditures made by this State, during the War of
1812, for the military purposes of the United States,
but hitherto without success; and whereas, it further
appears that since the presentation of these demands
of the State of Maryland to the Congress of the Uni-
ted States, and during their pendency, laws have
been passed by Congress, in several instances, au-
thorising and directing the payment to several other
States of the Union of precisely similar demands,
and for precisely similar expenditures to those for
which Maryland has so long unsuccessfully been seek-
ing to obtain repayment, as evidenced by a law passed
in 1832, directing the payment to the State of South
Carolina of interest on her expenditures during the
War of 1812, for the identical reason, as set forth in
that law, upon which Maryland claims and demands
interest — as evidenced also, by the subsequent pas-
sage of laws, in the years 1842 and 1849, for the pay-
ment to the States of Alabama, Georgia and Maine
of all interest paid, or lost by those States repective-
ly, on advances for the military purposes of the Uni-
ted States — and as further evidenced by the passage
of a law in the year 1852, directing the payment to
the State of New Hampshire of interest on all ad-
vances or expenditures by that State for the like mil-
itary purposes — and by other instances to be found on
the statute books of the United States, — Maryland
has just cause to complain of the injustice heretofore
done to her, and urgently to insist that the Congress
of the United States proceed without any further un-
necessary delay to pass upon the case, as already in
due form submitted and laid before them, and award
to this State equal justice with her sister States.
Resolved, That whilst the State of Maryland here-
by earnestly remonstrates against this most improper
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Passed Mar.
10, 1856.
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