BLAIR LEE III, Acting Governor

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Workmen's Compensation Commission and the Commissioner of
Labor and Industry as nonvoting ex officio members; and be
it further

RESOLVED, That the study commission be directed to
report to the Governor's Study Commission on Workmen's
Compensation Governor by December 1, 1978 with
recommendations as to areas where legislation may be
necessary; and be it further

RESOLVED, That copies of this Resolution be sent to
Acting Governor Blair Lee III, the Chairman of the Workmen's
Compensation Commission, the Commissioner of Labor and
Industry, and the Chairman of the Governor's Study
Commission on Workmen's Compensation.

Approved May 2, 1978.

No. 6

(Senate Joint Resolution 39)

A Senate Joint Resolution concerning

Submerged Lands — Leasing

FOR the purpose of providing an exception to the Secretary
of Natural Resources tan on leasing submerged lands in
the ocean and coastal bays of Worcester County.

WHEREAS, Resolution No. 44 of the 1974 General Assembly
requested the Secretary of Natural Resources to prohibit
further leasing of submerged areas until a comprehensive
survey of the submerged lands could be made to determine the
exact location of distinctive natural bars and barren
bottom; and

WHEREAS, The Secretary of Natural Resources implemented
that request by prohibiting further leasing; and

WHEREAS, The submerged areas in the Atlantic coastal
waters of Worcester County have not had any significant
production from natural oyster bars for many years; and

WHEREAS, The private culture of oysters on these
submerged bottoms does not conflict with a fishery of the
natural oyster bars in those areas as it would in the
Chesapeake Bay; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That the
Secretary of Natural Resources is requested to amend his
order prohibiting the leasing of submerged areas so that
appropriate barren bottoms may be leased for the culture of