| Resolution passed on December 21, 1777 appointing
Commissioners to meet with Virginia re:
jurisdictional and navigational issues. See House of Delegates Journal entries:
On Saturday November 8, 1777, the House reiterated the position of the Convention the previous October with regard to its Charter derived rights on the rivers Potomac and Pocomoke and on the Chesapeake Bay, and resolved to send a letter to Virginia. See the text of the resolve on p. 8, of the orginal printed Journal of the House of Delegates found on line at the Archives of Maryland web site, http://www.archivesofmaryland.net. The proceedings with regard to the joint balloting for Commissioners is found in the House Journal at p.60. The instructions to the Commissioners begin on p. 64. [It is clear from the language of the instructions that the concern was solely with navigable parts of the two rivers and the bay and not the full course of the rivers. ecp 11/28/00]
The House also responded to a Nov. 22, 1777 recommendation from Congress that
Md., Va., and N.C. meet to discuss price regulation at Fredericksburg Virginia.
For the Senate's recording of the instructions, see below and the Senate Proceedings for the November-December 1777 session. |
