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ing and other industrial factories, together with the young men
drafted from the farms, has so deprived the farmers of this
State of the necessary laborers on their farms as to make it
almost impossible for our farms to produce their usual crops,
to say nothing of an increased production so earnestly desired
by all our people; therefore,

Be it Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of
Maryland, That the presiding officers of the Senate and the
House of Delegates' are hereby requested, immediately upon
the passage of these joint resolutions, to name a Joint Com-
mittee of Nine, Four on the part of the Senate and Five on
the part of the House of Delegates, to confer with the Heads
of the War and Navy Departments of the United States Gov-
ernment for the purpose of considering the best method,, of
securing the necessary labor for the Maryland farms,

And be it further Resolved, That the power of this Joint
Committee shall not cease upon the adjournment of the present
Session of the General Assembly, but shall continue until such
time as the members of said Committee shall deem necessary
to complete its work.

Approved April 10th, 1918.

NO. 10.

JOINT RESOLUTION of the House of Delegates and Senate
of Maryland requesting and empowering the Governor to
appoint a commission to investigate the disease of tubercu-
losis among the Negro population of the State, and to make
provision for the control of the disease in staid race.

WHEREAS the disease of tuberculosis by reason of its wide
prevalence and malignant character constitutes one of the
most dreaded menaces to the public health; and

WHEREAS it has been effectually demonstrated that this
disease can be made subject to control by scientific treatment,
as evidenced by the report of the State Sanatorium at Sabillas-
ville, Md.; and

WHEREAS members of the Negro race are not admitted to this
sanitorium of the State, and whereas the Negro is known to
be highly susceptible to the disease of tuberculosis by reason
of racial weakness, aggravated by unsanitary conditions in the

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