1746                            JOINT RESOLUTIONS

corporation existing for the private profit of its shareholders. As
such national banks enjoy a special tax free status from state taxation
which is wholly unjustified; and

Whereas, In order to avoid claims of inequitable discrimination
on the part of state-chartered banks, the states have found it neces-
sary to also exempt from state taxation state banks to the same extent
national banks enjoy exemption under the Act of Congress, and

Whereas, The loss of revenue to the states from the application of
these exemptions to national and state banks is large and unwarranted
and no valid reason exists to continue the privileged status of tax
immunity enjoyed by national banks from payment of state taxes
applicable to all others; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Maryland,.
Senators and Congressmen are urged to take such action as may be
required to subject national banks to the tax laws and powers of
the states, and be it further

Resolved, That copies of this Joint Resolution are sent to Senators
Mathias and Tydings and to Congressmen Beall, Fallon, Friedel,
Garmatz, Gude, Hogan, Long and Morton.

Approved May 2, 1969.

No. 17
(Senate Joint Resolution 60)

Senate Joint Resolution requesting the Governor to include in the
next appropriation for the Department of Correctional Services a
sum of money determined by the Board of Public Works to com-
pensate Samuel Dixon for injuries sustained by him at the Mary-
land Correctional Training Center, and authorizing the Department
of Correctional Services to pay such sum so appropriated to the
said Samuel Dixon.

Whereas, Samuel Dixon was on April 7, 1968, an inmate of the
Maryland Correctional Training Center, having been sentenced by
the Circuit Court of Kent County to an undetermined period not to
exceed (3) years; and

Whereas, On the said 7th day of April, 1968, the said Samuel
Dixon was an innocent victim of a riot that took place in the said
institution; and

Whereas, On the said 7th day of April, 1968, a group of approxi-
mately 30 inmates at the said Maryland Correctional Training Center
attacked and beat one of the guards and at that time the said Samuel
Dixon was in the vicinity where the attack took place and he at-
tempted to come to the aid of the prison guard; and

Whereas, As a result of his effort, the said Samuel Dixon was
attacked and beaten severely by a group of the rioters, and upon con-
clusion of his being beaten, he was still able to get up and assist the
guard and they both sought shelter in a nearby building and bar-
ricaded themselves until the riot subsided; and