384 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

NO. 9.

A Joint Resolution requesting the Governor of Maryland
and the Mayor of Baltimore City to authorize an increase
in the police force of Baltimore City, and to request the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to provide suffi-
cient funds to pay for same.

WHEREAS, Section 745C of the Baltimore City Charter
(Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws) authorizes the
Police Commissioner of Baltimore City to increase the
police force of said City upon the written authority from
both the Governor of the State and the Mayor of Baltimore
City; and

WHEREAS, Automobile accidents resulting in death or
serious injury have been increasing; and

WHEREAS, The City of Baltimore is the only city of its
size and population which does not have 24-hour traffic
patrol; and

WHEREAS, It has been demonstrated by the statistics of
the several police departments and safety councils through-
out the country that a constant police motor patrol is nec-
essary if there is to be any reduction in death resulting
from automobile accidents; therefore be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the Governor of the State and the Mayor of Baltimore City
be and they are hereby requested to give their written
authority to the Police Commissioner of Baltimore City to
add twenty-five (25) additional patrolmen to the traffic
patrol of Baltimore City in order to give a 24-hour traffic
patrol; and be it further

Resolved, That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
be and they are hereby requested to provide a sufficient sum
necessary to pay the cost of adding the twenty-five (25)
additional patrolmen.

NO. 10.

A Joint Resolution assenting to Public Act 182 of the
Seventy-fourth Congress, approved June 29, 1935, and
known as the Bankhead-Jones Act.