Report of the select committee, to which was referred so much of the executive message as relates to the assumption of state debts, by the general government.

[Annapolis, Maryland] : [publisher not identified], [1844]

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Report of the Maryland House Select Committee regarding the governor's message on the assumption of state debts by the federal government. The committee reviewed numerous documents, in the appendix, and concluded and proposed resolutions in favor of assisting states. The report concludes with the following resolution and substitute: "Resolved, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That our Senators and Representatives in Congress be requested to urge upon that body the issue of two hundred millions of Government stock bearing an interest of three per cent, payable at the Treasury in Washington, and to distribute the same among the several States of this Union, in proportions, graduated by the federal representation, specifically pledging for the redemption of the stock and the payment of the interest, the public domain, (L.) Resolved, That this failing, they urge upon the Congress the actual division in just proportion of the public land among the 15 States and Territories of the Union, leaving to each State the management and disposition of its own share." (Page 14-15)

"By the House of Delegates, January 18th, 1844. Read and ordered to be printed."--Title page.

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Print version: Maryland. General Assembly. House of Delegates. Select Committee on the Assumption of State Debts by the General Government. Report of the select committee, to which was referred so much of the executive message as relates to the assumption of state debts, by the general government. [Annapolis, Md. : s.n., 1844] (OCoLC)39717759

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