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HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1701
WHEREAS, There is at the present time an unwholesome
trend throughout the world to hamper and restrict the free
flow of commerce from nation to nation, which trend has more
recently become apparent in the legislation enacted by the
forty-eight States of this Union, and
WHEREAS, This action by the States, raising economic and
commercial barriers against our neighbors, violates the Con-
stitution of the United States and its express purpose to form
a more perfect Union, and
WHEREAS, Such legislation defeats its very purpose of aid-
ing local merchants, farmers and business men by encouraging
retaliatory legislation of the same nature in other States, and
WHEREAS, Such restrictions of economic activity are foreign
to all principles which this Nation was founded to uphold and
in which it still believes, and
WHEREAS, Even the Free State of Maryland has not been
free from the adoption of such provincial, uneconomic and
unwise legislation, therefore, be it
Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all
legislation tending in any way to hamper or restrict the
free flow of commerce among the several States or to dis-
criminate against our neighbors in the other States of this
Nation be and it is hereby condemned, and be it further
Resolved, That the Secretary of State be and he is hereby
requested to transmit under the Great Seal of this State a copy
of the foregoing resolution to the Governors and Legislatures
of the other forty-seven States of the Union.
Approved April 26, 1939.
NO. 6.
(House Joint Resolution 6)
A Joint Resolution relative to Flag Week.
WHEREAS,, the whole world, rent asunder by strife and con-
tention, violence and intolerance, is today in a state of tur-
moil and uncertainty, marked by a titanic struggle between
Democracy and Autocracy, while in this Country anti-Ameri-
can forces are striving to discredit and destroy the ideals and
institutions symbolized by the American Flag, and social,
political and economic forces are combating one another; and
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