J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                            351

River bed and waters to the low water mark of the southern shore
thereof, as laid out on the Matthews-Nelson survey of 1927, and that
Virginia is the owner of the Potomac River bed and waters southerly
from said low water mark as laid out, and that the citizens of Vir-
ginia have certain riparian rights along the southern shore of the
River, as shown on said Matthews-Nelson survey, and, in common
with the citizens of Maryland, the right of fishing in said River,
Maryland and Virginia have agreed that the necessary conservation
and improvement of the tidewater portion of the Potomac fishery
resources can be best achieved by a Commission comprised of repre-
sentatives of both Maryland and Virginia, charged with the estab-
lishment and maintenance of a program to conserve and improve
these resources, and

Whereas, at a meeting of the Commissioners appointed by the
Governors of the State of Maryland and the Commonwealth of Vir-
ginia, to-wit: Carlyle Barton, M. William Adelson, Stephen R. Col-
lins, Edward S. Delaplaine and William J. McWilliams, Esquires, on
the part of the State of Maryland, and Mills E. Godwin, Jr., Howard
H. Adams, Robert Y. Button, John Warren Cooke and Edward E.
Lane, Esquires, on the part of the Commonwealth of Virginia, at
Mount Vernon, in Virginia, on the twentieth day of December, in the
year one thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight, the following Poto-
mac River Compact of 1958 between the Commonwealth of Virginia
and the State of Maryland was mutually agreed to by the said
Commissioners:

Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Commissioners appointed by
the Governors of the State of Maryland and the Commonwealth of
Virginia, meeting in joint session, that they do unanimously recom-
mend to the said respective Governors that there be a new Compact,
to be designated as the "Potomac River Compact of 1958", and that
the said new Compact be referred as promptly as possible to the
Legislatures of the State of Maryland and the Commonwealth of
Virginia for appropriate action, and to the end that after ratification
and adoption by said Legislatures the same be submitted to the
Congress of the United States for approval.

ARTICLE I. COMMISSION—MEMBERSHIP
AND ORGANIZATION

Section 1. Commission Created. The Potomac River Fisheries
Commission, hereinafter designated as "Commission," is hereby
created.

Section 2. Members. The Commission shall consist of six mem-
bers, three from Maryland and three from Virginia. The Maryland
members shall be the members of the Tidewater Fisheries Commis-
sion of Maryland or its successor agency and the Virginia members
shall be the members of the Virginia Fisheries Commission or its
successor agency. If the membership of either of the respective State
Commissions exceeds three, then the three Commission members
from that state shall be selected by the Governor thereof from the
members of the State Commission; and if the membership of either
of the respective State Commissions is less than three, the three
Commission members from that state shall be the member or mem-
bers of the State Commission, and such additional person or persons