EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1021

Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Maryland,
That in the death of General Thomas J. Shryock, President
of the Board of Managers of the Cheltenham House of Ref-
ormation for Colored Boys, the State of Maryland has lost a
most worthy and competent official; and be it

Resolved, further, That the Secretary of the State of Mary-
land is requested to send a copy of these Resolutions, properly
certified, to the Board of Managers of the Home and to the
family of the deceased.

Approved March 19th, 1918.

NO. 7.

Requesting the Senators and Representatives in the Con-
gress of the United States from the State of Maryland to use

all honorable means to secure the passage of appropriate federal
legislation looking to the improvement of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal and its right of way to the end that this important
inland waterway may be more efficiently utilized for the trans-
portation of war material and equipment, coal, and agricultural
products, as may be needful to the national defense:

WHEREAS, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, extending from
Cumberland, in the State of Maryland, to the City of Wash-
ington, in the District of Columbia, passes through a rich and
fertile agricultural section of the State of Maryland, and

WHEREAS, formerly said canal was extensively used by the
residents of the Counties of Montgomery, Frederick, Washing-
ton and Allegany, in the State of Maryland, for the transporta-
tion of their products of agriculture, and

WHEREAS, because of inadequate equipment and uncertain

schedules of transportation the canal in recent years has to all
practical purposes become a carrier of coal from the City of
Cumberland to the District of Columbia, and that in a decreas-
ing volume from year to year, and

WHEREAS, because of the freight congestion on all railways

due to transportation of war material and equipment, there is

great need for an adequate carrier of coal from the fields of
Maryland and Pennsylvania to those who live in the District

of Columbia, and for the use of government buildings, and
other government agencies, located at the capital of the nation,

and