WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 2223

(2) To consult and advise with the pertinent State,
interstate and Federal agencies and citizens concerned
therewith.

(3) To determine whether improvements in the ad-
ministration and enforcement of existing laws are needed,
or whether the concurrent laws of the two states need to
be amended, or whether the best interests of the fisheries
and of the people of the two states will be served by
granting additional powers to existing State or interstate
agencies, or whether a new joint commission, or inter-
state authority should be created by compact or reciprocal
legislation between the two states and empowered to study,
determine policy and make and enforce regulations ap-
plicable to the fisheries of the tidewaters of the Potomac
River and of the tidewaters of the Chesapeake Bay, within
the jurisdiction- of the two states.

(4) To bring the problems and responsibilities facing
the two states to the attention of the public through the
press, radio, schools, civic organizations, and any other
means of disseminating information; and, be it further

Resolved, That such Commission shall elect from its
members a Chairman and a Vice-Chairman and shall pre-
sent to the Governors of the two states from time to time
requests for such clerical and other assistance as it may
require, and, with the approval of the Governor of Mary-
land, the Commission of Tidewater Fisheries is hereby
authorized to make available to the Commission such
assistance, including necessary expenses of the Maryland
members of the joint Commission, to the end that it may
report its conclusions as to policy and its proposals as
to legislation to the Governors and legislatures of the
two states not later than January first, nineteen hundred
and forty-eight; such expenditures to be made from the
funds appropriated to the Commission of Fisheries; and,
be it further

Resolved, That in fitting commemoration of the one-
hundred and sixty-second anniversary of the signing of
the original compact at Mount Vernon it is recommended
that the organization meeting of the herein established
joint interstate commission be held at Mount Vernon, Vir-
ginia, on the twenty-eighth day of March, nineteen hun-
dred and forty-seven and that the Governors of Virginia
and Maryland be invited to acclaim this occasion by
proclamation and to arrange for the proper participation
of their states in this initial meeting of the joint commis-
sion and in any other ceremonies marking the one hundred