WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 2221

as to the amount of money needed for administrative ex-
penses, with the result that the standard tax of three tenths
of one percent, of payroll is much higher than necessary in
some states, as Maryland, and considerably less than neces-
sary in other jurisdictions; now therefore be it

Eesolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, that the
Congress of the United States be and it is hereby requested
to provide for the levy and collection by the individual states
of funds for the administrative expenses of the several Un-
employment Compensation systems, giving the states power
for the future, to set the amount of the tax to fit their indi-
vidual needs and to pay such expenses from the proceeds
thereof, requiring each state to credit to the Unemployment
Compensation Trust Fund any surplus resulting from such
taxes and expenses, and preserving the principles of the George
Bill to cover the distribution of excess administrative funds
already collected and held by the Federal government; and be
it further

Resolved, that the Secretary of State of Maryland is di-
rected to send copies of this Joint Resolution, under the
Seal of the State of Maryland, to the President of the Senate
and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the
Congress, to the members of the Maryland delegation in the
Congress, to the Social Security Board, and to the Council
of State Governments.

Approved March 29, 1947.

NO. 3.

(Senate Joint Resolution 2)

A Joint Resolution requesting the Governor to appoint a
Commission to confer and act jointly with a similar
Commission of Virginia for the purpose of re-studying
the Compact of 1785 and the concurrent legislation with
respect to the fisheries of the Potomac River and Chesa-
peake Bay and to report as to the need of additional
legislation and the enforcement of existing legislation
and any amendment thereof.

WHEREAS, on the twenty-eighth day of March in the
year seventeen hundred and eighty-five the states of Vir-
ginia and Maryland entered into a compact to regulate and