J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                          1435

System that portion of U. S. Route 40, between Hancock and the
Pennsylvania Line.

The members of the General Assembly of Maryland and many
thousands of citizens of the State of Maryland regret very deeply
the action of Federal road officials in keeping out of the Inter-State
Highway System that portion of U. S. Route 40, lying to the west
of Hancock, Maryland.

For almost 150 years, what is now Route 40 has been the most
direct means of access between the Nation's Capital and the great
States of the mid-west and far-west. The very first support given
by the Federal Government for a highway was in the year 1818,
when Federal funds were provided for the construction and develop-
ment of the famous old Cumberland Road.

It comes with particular irony that after nearly a century and
one-half of development and reconstruction of the Cumberland Road
and of the entire National highway, the most ambitious roads project
in the history of the country entirely skips a portion of this famous
old road. The omission is all the more glaring because Route 40,
as far West as Hancock, Maryland, is made a part of the Inter-
State Highway System. However, the heavily-traveled and highly
scenic portion of the road westerly from Hancock, through portions
of Washington, Allegany and Garrett Counties, until it reaches the
Pennsylvania State Line, is left out of the Inter-State Highway Sys-
tem. For reasons both of sentiment and of logic, the omission is a most
unfortunate one. It is the desire of the General Assembly of Mary-
land that the State Roads Commission of Maryland do everything
in its power to correct this unjust situation; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the State
Roads Commission of Maryland be requested to make strenuous
representations to the Bureau of Public Roads in Washington, in
order that there may be added to the Federal Inter-State Highway
System a portion of U. S. Route 40, from Hancock, Maryland to the
Pennsylvania State Line, in Garrett County; and be it further

Resolved, That the Secretary of State of Maryland be instructed
to send copies of this Resolution, under the Great Seal of the State
of Maryland, to the State Roads Commission and to each member
of the Maryland Delegation in the Congress of the United States.

Approved March 11, 1959

NO. 5
(House Joint Resolution 13)

House Joint Resolution To urge the Maryland Civil War Centen-
nial Commission to erect a monument to honor the Reverend
Abram Joseph Ryan in Hagerstown, Maryland.

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