HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1955

Millard E. Tydings, January 10, 1945, proposes to submit to
the Legislatures of the several states for their ratification a
Constitutional amendment with the following provisions:

"On the first day of each regular session, the President
shall transmit to the Congress his estimates of the receipts
of the Government during the ensuing fiscal year under the
laws existing on such date, together with his recommendations
as to the purpose for which such receipts shall be expended,
and, except in time of war or during the period ending oil
the date of the expiration of one full fiscal year after the
termination thereof, the Congress shall not appropriate money
for expenditure during such fiscal year in excess of such esti-
mated receipts, as transmitted or as modified or revised by the
President, except by a vote of three-fifths of each House taken
by yeas and nays, unless prior to the making of such appro-
priation the Congress shall have imposed such taxes, duties,
imposts, or excises as will raise additional revenues equal to
the amount by which such appropriation exceeds such esti-
mated receipts, or unless such appropriation be for the pur-
pose of paying the expenses and contingencies of the Congress
or the courts, or for the payment of claims against the United
States, the justice of which shall have been judicially de-
clared by such tribunal as may be established by the Congress
for the investigation of claims against the Government. "

Now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate, the House of Delegates concurring,
that the Maryland Legislative Assembly urges the Congress pi
the United States to enact Senate Joint Resolution No. 8;
and be it further

Resolved, that copies of this memorial be transmitted by the
Secretary of State to the President of the United States, to
the Vice-President of the United States, and to the Speaker
of the House of Representatives, and to the Maryland members
of the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress.

Approved April 23, 1945.

NO. 11.

(House Joint Resolution 12)

A Joint Resolution requesting the Congress of the United
States not to appropriate any funds for the construction of
the proposed "Potomac River Reservoirs or Dams".