1974 JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

WHEREAS, as a result of this great battle, President Abraham
Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation; and

WHEREAS, the aforesaid suggestion has been presented to the
Secretary of the Navy on behalf of the Washington County
Historical Society through Maryland's Senior United States
Senator; therefore be it

Resolved,. % the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby requested to name
one of the aircraft carriers, now under construction, the "U. S.
S. Antietam"; and be it further

Resolved y That the Secretary of the Senate be, and he is here-
by directed to send, under the Great Seal of the State of Mary-
land, a copy of this resolution to the President of the United
States and to the Secretary of the Navy of the United States.

Approved March 31? 1943.

NO. 6.

(Senate Joint Resolution 4)

A Joint Resolution requesting the State Roads Commission
to draw up plans for the modernization of the Washington-
Baltimore Boulevard and to allocate funds sufficient to
undertake and complete said modernization.

WHEREAS, United States Route No. 1, commonly called the
Washington-Baltimore Boulevard, is one of the oldest roads,
having been created the first State Road in this State by
Chapter 312 of the Acts of 1906 and one of the most heavily
travelled roads in the State of Maryland; and

WHEREAS, through the years this road has continued to
assume ever greater importance as a vital link in the highways
connecting the north and the south; and

WHEREAS, today, this road is an essential part of the highway
system over which the armed forces of the country are being
transported daily with the least effort and the greatest speed
and as a result of this burden of travel and transportation
so intimately connected with the war its continued existence,
maintenance and improvement has become vital to our national
defense; and