1952 JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

of the engineering employees of the State Roads Commission
with a view of adjusting said salaries upward sufficiently to
retain existing personnel and to attract efficient and qualified
additional employees necessary to handle the vastly augmented
construction program outlined herein, and to determine and
fix said salaries; and be it further

Resolved, That in order to conduct said survey, the State
Employees' Standard Salary Board be and hereby is authorized
to employ all necessary personnel and expend funds; and be
it further

Resolved, That the cost of said survey shall be paid by the
State Roads Commission, and said survey shall be completed
prior to June 30, 1945.

Approved April 5, 1945.

NO. 9.

(House Joint Resolution 10)

A Joint Resolution memorializing the Congress of the United
States on the Postwar Military Establishment and the
Status of the National Guard.

WHEREAS, the Postwar Military Policy and the character,
composition and size of the Military Establishment of the
United States is a matter of vital importance to the States and
Territories of the Union, as well as to the National Govern-
ment; and

WHEREAS, the decisions which will be reached by the Con-
gress in this matter will be predicated upon the powers granted
to the Congress under the "Militia clauses" as well as the
"Army clauses" of the Constitution, and will directly affect
the Military Establishments of the Several States, and the
relationship of these State Forces to the Army of the United
States; and

WHEREAS, many plans and suggestions as to the Postwar
Military Policy and the future Military Establishment have
been proposed, some of which have already been presented to
the Congress; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
Congress of the United States is respectfully urged to preserve
in the Postwar Military Organization insofar as it relates to