1810                             Joint Resolutions

No. 8
(Senate Joint Resolution 20)

Senate Joint Resolution to request that the Governor direct the Sec-
retary of the Department of Transportation to have the State
Roads Commission render full report to the President of the
Senate and the Speaker of the House on the traffic problems on
the Governor Ritchie Highway in the section bound by the Balti-
more Beltway on the North and Maryland Highway 100 on the
South.

Whereas, approximately 200,000 people from Anne Arundel
County and Baltimore City use the shopping corridor on the Gov-
ernor Ritchie Highway bounded by the Baltimore Beltway on the
North and Maryland Highway 100 on the South and numerous traffic
hazards exist on the highway in this area caused by poorly planned
road construction and unworkable and inappropriate zoning regu-
lations; and

Whereas, improved service to the shopping public is required for
the continued use of the area by the residents of South Baltimore,
Howard County and the northern part of Anne Arundel County; and

Whereas, industrial use and growth of the area referred to as
the United States Ordnance Depot requires that ready access be
available; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Governor
direct the Secretary of the Department of Transportation to direct
the State Roads Commission to study improvement of this section of
the Governor Ritchie Highway to provide a more convenient traffic
flow in the shopping corridor on the Governor Ritchie Highway and
to investigate the use of Federal funds for urban areas to finance
the construction.

Approved May 6, 1971.

No. 9
(Senate Joint Resolution 21)

Senate Joint Resolution, congratulating the farmers of Eastern Shore
of Maryland for providing abundance of food which has served to
increase the deer and goose population of Maryland.

The members of the General Assembly of Maryland send their
congratulations to the farmers of the Eastern Shore of this State
in appreciation for their generosity in providing an abundance of
food which has markedly affected an increase in the deer and goose
populations of this State.

Both these species of wildlife are predominantly land feeders,
feeding particularly upon corn, soybeans, wheat and clover.

The contribution which the farmers of the Eastern Shore have
made to the increased supply of these animals and fowl is well