_Resolution of the House of Delegates, 1818._
BY THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES, _Jan. 26, 1818_.
_Resolved, unanimously_, That the Governor be requested to communicate to
the President of the United State and to our Senators and Representatives
in Congress, the opinion of this General Assembly, that a wise and
provident policy suggests the expediency, on the part of our National
Government, of procuring, through negotiation, by cession or purchase, a
tract of country, on the western coast of Africa, for the colonization of
the free people of color of the United States.