1416                       JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Maryland,
That the Governor of the State of Maryland be and lie is
hereby authorized to issue a proclamation calling upon officials
of the Government to- display the nag of the United States on
all governmental buildings on October 11th of each year and
inviting the people of the State of Maryland to observe the
day in schools and churches, or other suitable places, with
appropriate ceremonies in commemoration of the death of
General Casimir Pulaski.

Approved April 17, 1931.

NO. 6.

A Joint Resolution requesting the United States Administrator
of Veterans' Affairs to construct a United States Veterans'
Bureau General Medical and Surgical Hospital in the State
of Maryland.

WHEREAS, The Congress of the United States has appro-
priated a fund for the construction of Veterans' Bureau Hos-
pitals in the various parts of the United States; and

WHEREAS, The location of these hospitals has been left to
the discretion of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs; and

WHEREAS, There is no Veterans' Bureau General Medical
and Surgical Hospital located within the boundaries of the
State of Maryland; and

WHEREAS, There are at the present time two hundred and
forty veterans in Maryland who have made application for
treatment in general hospitals and who cannot be cared for
because there are no beds available; now therefore, be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
State of Maryland does hereby petition the Administrator of
Veterans' Affairs to cause to be constructed a Veterans' Bureau
General Medical and Surgical Hospital of not less than three
hundred bed capacity in the State of Maryland, and the Secre-
tary of State is hereby authorized to transmit a copy of this
resolution to the United States Administrator of Veterans'
Affairs.

Approved April 17, 1931.