1962 JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Commission, consisting of not less than eleven (11) mem-
bers, to study the need and desirability of having a State
Constitutional Convention to revise the Constitution of the
State and to submit the results of its study, together with
any recommendations, to the Legislative Council on or
before October 1, 1946 and to the General Assembly which
convenes in January, 1947.

Approved April 23, 1945.

NO. 17.

(Senate Joint Resolution 17)

A Joint Resolution authorizing and directing the Governor
to appoint a Commission to confer and act jointly with
a similar Commission of Virginia for the purpose of re-
studying the Compact of 1785 and the concurrent legis-
lation respecting the fisheries of the Potomac River and
Chesapeake Bay and to report as to the need for addi-
tional legislation with respect thereto and as to the
desirability of creating a joint inter-State authority to
consider the problems in connection with the fisheries
of the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay and to
submit a report containing its conclusions and recom-
mendations.

WHEREAS, on the twenty-eighth day of March in the
year 1785 the states of Maryland and Virginia entered
into a compact to regulate and settle the jurisdiction and
navigation of the Potomac and the lower part of the
Chesapeake Bay; and

WHEREAS, That compact did establish that the right of
fishing in the river shall be common to, and equally en-
joyed by, the citizens of both states, and that all laws and
regulations which may be necessary for the preservation
of fish shall be made with the mutual consent and appro-
bation of both states; and

WHEREAS, since that time the fisheries of the Potomac
River and Chesapeake Bay have greatly developed, in-
creased, and then declined with a corresponding and con-
tinuing increase in the problems having to do with the
regulation, conservation, and development of the fisheries;
and