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the State of Maryland, and furnishes food and employment for
a large number of the citizens thereof; and

WHEREAS, This great source of revenue of food is diminishing
in alarming proportions from year to year, and the very exis-
tence of the same has become seriously impaired; and

WHEREAS, This State has, from time to time, enacted legisla-
tion for the protection of this great resource and industry; and

WHEREAS, The State of Virginia contains the mouth and a
large proportion of said Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries,
and has failed to enact adequate legislation for the protection
of said fish and the industries incident thereto; which causes
legislation for the protection of migratory fish, on the part of
the State of Maryland, to be largely futile; and

WHEREAS, The unlimited extension of nets across the waters
of said bay not only hinders the passage of spawning fish to
the upper regions of the Chesapeake and its tributaries, but
said nets are also a dangerous and troublesome hindrance to
navigation; therefore, be it

Resolved, That the United States Senators and Congressmen
of Maryland are petitioned by the Assembly of Maryland to
aid, by all honorable means, the passage of legislation tending
to make uniform the laws protecting the migratory fish of the
Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, by Federal supervision and
restriction; and be it further

Resolved, That the attention of the War Department of the
United States is also respectfully directed to this matter, and
it is hereby petitioned to restrict the length of the extension
of nets into said bay and its tributaries, thus enhancing the
safety of vessels engaged in commerce in these waters; and be
it further

Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be sent to each of the
United States Senators and Congressmen representing the
State of Maryland, and to the War Department of the United
States. [Endorsed: "Read the third time and passed by yeas
and nays. "] [Which was read the first time and referred to the
Committee on Chesapeake Bay and Tributaries. ]

LAID-OVER BILLS.

The President laid before the Senate, laid-over Bill, with
amendments, being

SENATE BILL No. 38, BY MR. JOHNSON.
SUBJECT: ATTORNEY AT LAW FOR HOWARD
COUNTY.