JOINT RESOLUTION GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 1924
No. 8
Authorizing and directing the Governor of Maryland to appoint a commission of twenty-one persons to consider legislation concerning the welfare of colored people residing in the State of Maryland, and requiring said commission to report to the Governor and General Assembly in 1927.
WHEREAS, A petition signed by numerous colored citizens of Maryland has been filed with the Governor and members of the General Assembly requesting that a committee of white and colored citizens be appointed to consider questions of housing, improvement of farm life, educational betterment, the administration of the Cheltenham institution, general health, representation on police force, transportation regulations and other matters relative to colored citizens of Maryland, and to make such recommendations as such commission may feel justified for the good of all, therefore be it,
RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That the Governor of Maryland be and he is hereby authorized to appoint a commission of twenty-one citizens, with representatives of both the white and colored race on said commission, and the said commission shall consider legislation concerning the welfare of colored people residing in the State of Maryland and report with recommendations concerning such legislation to the Governor and to the General Assembly in 1927.