Text this: Letter from the Mayor of the City of Annapolis, Md., transmitting a memorial to Congress of the Mayor, Counselor, and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis, State of Maryland, "in favor of an appropriation for the construction of a dry dock on the Severn River at Round Bay, and the improvement of said river, in the State of Maryland." submitted in support of a proposed amendment to the Naval appropriation bill H. R. 9378, Fifty-fifth Congress, second session, so as to secure the same as an additional means of our national defense.