14 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [DEC. 17

ing appropriations made in the budget for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1950, to the State Department of Public Welfare for an
emergency program of General Public Assistance, said appropria-
tion to be expended only upon a matching basis and to authorize
the several Counties and the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
as the case may be, to levy such tax or borrow such money as may
be necessary to match available State funds."

Which was read the first time and referred to the Committee on
Ways and Means.

House Bill No. 4—By Mr. Buffington:

A Bill entitled "An Act to provide that no payments shall be
made to members of the General Assembly for or on account of
mileage allowances by reason of their attendance at the Special
Session of the General Assembly called to convene on Saturday,
December 17, 1949, and that Section 1 of Article 40 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), shall be suspended and
of no effect whatever insofar as it may be construed to require
the payment of mileage allowances to the members of the General
Assembly for or on account of their attendance at said Special
Session on December 17, 1949."

Which was read the first time and referred to the Committee on
Rules.

INTRODUCTION OF RESOLUTION.

House Resolution—By the Speaker:

Resolution to invite Dr. Clifton T. Perkins to accept the posi-
tion of Commissioner of Mental Hygiene of the State of Maryland.

WHEREAS, the important post of Commissioner of Mental Hygiene
of Maryland has been offered to Dr. Clifton T. Perkins, the Com-
missioner of Mental Health of the State of Massachusetts, and

WHEREAS, Dr. Perkins is a psychiatrist of broad experience,
excellent training and an outstanding hospital administrator of
nation-wide reputation, and

WHEREAS, he was selected for appointment to this position after
a painstaking search by Governor William Preston Lane, Jr.,
among qualified men to head up the reorganization of Maryland's
mental hospitals, and

WHEREAS, the end result of this painstaking search has put
Maryland in the position of taking the leadership in the field of
mental hygiene in the United States: now therefore, be it

Resolved by the House of Delegates of Maryland, That the House
of Delegates join with Governor William Preston Lane, Jr., in the
invitation to this outstanding psychiatrist and hospital adminis-