J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                       1611

No. 4
(Senate Joint Resolution 6)

Senate Joint Resolution expressing the deepest regrets of the General
Assembly over the passing of John S. Shriver.

The members of the General Assembly of Maryland learned with
sorrow and deepest regret of the passing of John S. Shriver, Director
of the Fiscal Research Bureau, which occurred a few weeks following
the adjournment of the General Assembly in 1964.

After a varied career in State governmental positions, military
service, and private industry, John Shriver, in 1953, became Director
of the Fiscal Research Bureau. During the next eleven years, he
vastly increased the stature and importance of this legislative service
agency, and at the time of his passing, had brought it to a place of
honor and vitality in the State government.

John Shriver was devoted to this General Assembly and to the
legislative process. He brought to this legislature a brilliant intellect,
a capacity for hard work, an informed judgment on State and other
public affairs, and a discriminating analysis of fiscal matters. His
devotion to this General Assembly and his contribution to its work will
be seldom equalled and never surpassed.

We knew John Shriver also as a boon companion, a raconteur with-
out peer, a fierce advocate of conservative government; and we loved
him for his bristling mustaches, his contagious belly-shaking laughter,
his great zest for life and for his friends.

The General Assembly, the State of Maryland, and the art of good
government are the better for John Shriver. This General Assembly
had a deep affection and sincere respect for him; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the General
Assembly with these few and imperfect words of sorrow and regret
records its high appreciation for the life, personality, and abilities of
John S. Shriver.

Approved March 11, 1965.

No. 5
(Senate Joint Resolution 9)

Senate Joint Resolution requesting the Committee on Taxation and
Fiscal Matters to study the problem of State taxation of inter-
state business.

The General Assembly is asking the Legislative Council's Com-
mittee on Taxation and Fiscal Matters to study the vital and pressing
problem of State taxation of inter-state business.

This matter involves the action of individual states in taxing the
income of corporations whose activities extend across state bound-
aries. There is need for a uniform apportionment formula to cover
such State taxes.