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JOINT RESOLUTIONS

revenues for a fiscal year, excluding any revenues
derived from borrowing, and two—thirds of all Members
elected to each House of the Congress so determine by
Joint Resolution, the total of all Federal appropriations
may exceed the total estimated Federal revenues for that
fiscal year."

and, be it further

RESOLVED, That copies of this Resolution under the
Great Seal of the State of Maryland, be sent by the
Secretary of State to: Honorable Gerald Ford, President
of the United States, Washington, D.C.; Honorable Charles
McC. Mathias, Old Senate Office Building, Washington,
D.C.; Honorable J. Glenn Beall, Jr., Old Senate Office
Building, Washington, D.C.; Honorable Carl Albert,
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Washington,
D.C.; Honorable Robert E. Bauman, Longworth Building,
Washington, D.C.; Honorable Clarence D. Long, Rayburn
Building, Washington, D.C.; Honorable Paul S. Sarbanes,
Cannon Office Building, Washington, D.C.; Honorable
Marjorie S. Holt, Longworth Building, Washington, D.C.;
Honorable Gladys Spellman, House Office Building,
Washington, D.C.; Honorable Goodloe E. Byron, Longworth
Building, Washington, D.C.; Honorable Parren J.
Mitchell, Cannon Building, Washington, D.C.; and
Honorable Gilbert Gude, Cannon House Office Building,
Washington, D.C.; and be it further

RESOLVED, That under the Great Seal of the State of
Maryland, the Secretary of State is directed to send
copies of this Joint Resolution to the Secretary of State
and to the presiding officers of both Houses of the
Legislature of each of the other States in the Onion,
with the request that it be circulated among leaders in
the Executive and Legislative branches of the several
State governments; and with the further request that each
of the other States in the Union join in requiring the
Congress of the United States to call a constitutional
convention for the purpose of initiating a proposal to
amend the Constitution of the United States in
substantially the form proposed in this Joint Resolution
of the General Assembly of Maryland.

* Not signed by the Governor.

No. 78 *
(Senate Joint Resolution 15)