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INTRODUCTION OF RESOLUTION

House Joint Resolution No. 2—By Delegates Murphy, McGuirk, Wheatley
and Baumann:

House Joint Resolution calling for an investigation by the General
Assembly as to who composed the music to which the lyrics of the Star
Spangled Banner are set and certification of the results of the investiga-
tion to the Congress of the United States.

Which was read the first time and referred to the Committee on
Rules.

FIRST READING OF SENATE BILLS

Senate Bill No. 1—By the President:

A Bill entitled: An Act making an emergency appropriation for the
payment of the expenses of the General Assembly of Maryland for the
Extraordinary Session of 1964.

Which was read the first time and referred to the Committee on
Rules.

Senate Bill No. 2—By the President:

A Bill entitled: An Act to add a new Section 136(g) to Article 56 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title "Licenses," sub-
title "Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax," to follow immediately after Section 136(f)
thereof; to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 137(a) of said
Article and subtitle; and to add a new Section 29A to Article 89B of the
said Code, title "State Roads," subtitle "Distribution and Use of Special
Funds," to follow immediately after Section 29 thereof, increasing the
license tax with respect to motor vehicles, which is generally known as
the gasoline tax, and providing for the collection, distribution, and use
of this increased tax; to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
341(d) of Article 66½ of said Code (1963 Supplement), title "Motor
Vehicles," subtitle "Offenses and Prosecutions"; to add new Sections
341(d-l), 341(d-2), and 341(d-3) to said Article and subtitle (1957 Edi-
tion and 1963 Supplement), to follow immediately after Section 341(d);
and to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 7 of Article 88B of
said Code (1957 Edition), title "State Police," subtitle "In General,"
placing maximum amounts upon the expenditures from motor vehicle
revenues for the support of the Department of Motor Vehicles, the
Department of Maryland State Police, and the State Police Retirement
System, and providing that bonds authorized from and after June 1, 1964,
to pay the cost of capital improvements for the Department of Maryland
State Police and the Department of Motor Vehicles shall be serviced from
monies other than the special funds referred to in said Section 341 (d);
to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 29(a) of Article 66½
of said Code (1957 Edition), title "Motor Vehicles," subtitle "Administra-
tion—Registration—Titling," increasing the excise tax for the issuance
of every original certificate of title for certain motor vehicles and com-
mercial motor vehicles; to add new Sections 211A-211G, inclusive, to
Article 89B of said Code (1957 Edition and 1963 Supplement), title "State
Roads," subtitle "Bonds, Notes or Other Evidence of Indebtedness," to
follow immediately after Section 211 thereof, and to be under the new
subheading "State Highway Construction Bonds, Third Issue," authoriz-