HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                     3757

WHEREAS, The Budget presented to the Congress of the United
States by President Reagan would, if enacted, deprive Amtrak of
the federal funding required for its continued existence; and

WHEREAS, The effective elimination of Amtrak would result in
serious adverse economic consequences to this State and its
citizens in terms of loss of investment, loss of income to
equipment and supplies contractors with Amtrak, loss of rail
passenger service, loss of jobs, and a concomitant strain on the
Railroad Retirement System by the loss of many contributors to
that system; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That Amtrak
must be continued in operation to serve this State as Amtrak has
served in the past; and be it further

RESOLVED, That the Congress of the United States should
provide sufficient funding through appropriation of those amounts
of money necessary to keep Amtrak in fiscal year 1986 in at least
as sound a position operationally and financially as Amtrak has
been in fiscal year 1985; and be it further

RESOLVED, That copies of this Resolution be forwarded by the
Department of Legislative Reference to the Maryland Congressional
Delegation: Senators Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. and Paul S.
Sarbanes, Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510; and
Representatives Royden P. Dyson, Helen Delich Bentley, Barbara A.
Mikulski, Marjorie S. Holt, Steny H. Hoyer, Beverly B. Byron,
Parren J. Mitchell, and Michael D. Barnes, House Office Building,
Washington, D.C. 20515; the Honorable Harry Hughes, Governor of
Maryland; and the Honorable Elizabeth H. Dole, Secretary of
Transportation, United States Department of Transportation, 400
Seventh Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20590.

Signed May 21, 1985.

No. 31

(House Joint Resolution No. 74)

A House Joint Resolution concerning

The Mount Vernon Conference of 1785

FOR the purpose of commemorating the bicentennial of the Mount
Vernon Conference and the resulting Compact of 1785.

WHEREAS, The year 1989 marks the bicentennial of the
adoption of the United States Constitution, which established a
government of, by, and for the people, under which the State of
Maryland and the Nation at large has grown and prospered; and