MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                       3045

Paul Bailey.

It is then with such respect and affection that we
record for our Legislative posterity that this General
Assembly, State of Maryland, and all of Southern Maryland
are the better for his presence, his learned
contribution, his sparkling wit, his kind and genial
philosophy; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That
under the Great Seal of the State of Maryland, the
Secretary of State is requested to send copies of this
Resolution to Senator Paul Jacob Bailey; and be it
further

RESOLVED, That the two presiding officers of the
General Assembly, the Honorable John Hanson Briscoe and
the Honorable William S. James, are requested personally
to assure our great, good friend from St. Mary's County
of his fin place in the memories and admiration of a
whole generation of colleagues in the General Assembly.

Approved May 31, 1974.

No. 51

(Senate Joint Resolution 60)
A Senate Joint Resolution concerning

Budget of the United States

FOR the purpose of requesting appropriate action by the
Congress to amend the Federal Constitution to
require that the total of all Federal appropriations
may not exceed the total of all estimated Federal
revenues in any fiscal year, with a certain
exception.

WHEREAS, Each year, this Nation becomes more deeply
in debt as its expenditures grossly and repeatedly exceed
available revenues so that the legal public debt limit
has exceeded 437 billion dollars; and

WHEREAS, Attempts to limit spending, including
impoundment of funds by the President of the United
States, have resulted in strenuous objections that the
responsibility for appropriations is the constitutional
duty of the Congress; ana

WHEREAS, Nonetheless, the annual budget repeatedly
demonstrates an unwillingness or inability to curtail