WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1895

That the Senators and Members of the House in Congress
from Maryland are hereby requested to give active opposi-
tion to all pending and proposed measures which would
create Federal ownership or control of lands, fish or other
resources beneath navigable waters within State boundaries,
except such rights as are delegated to the Federal govern-
ment by the Constitution of the United States, and that our
Senators and Members of the House in Congress are hereby
requested to give their active support to legislation which
would recognize and confirm State ownership of such prop-
erty; and

(2) That the Senate Committee on the Armed Services be
requested to hold hearings at the earliest practicable date
for the purpose of obtaining such information as may be
necessary to enable that Committee to recommend to the
Senate appropriate legislation defining and delimiting the
territorial waters of the United States consistently with the
sovereignty of the several States of the Union, the interna-
tional rights and obligations of the United States and with
due regard to the national defense, to commerce and to the
conservation development and utilization of the resources
of the marginal seas and the constitutional relationship with
national economy and national defense; and

(3) That a copy of these Resolutions be mailed to each
Senator and to each Member of the House in Congress from
Maryland and that Senator Millard E. Tydings, as Chair-
man of the Senate Committee on the Armed Services, be and
he is hereby respectfully requested to introduce a resolution
in the Senate substantially similar to Resolution (2) hereof
and to expedite the hearings referred to in that Resolution.

Approved March 4, 1949.

NO. 3

(Senate Joint Resolution 1)

Joint Resolution relating to the construction of roads in
State Parks and access roads thereto.

WHEREAS,, the State of Maryland has no definite policy
covering the construction and maintenance of roads within
its State parks; and

WHEREAS, if the State is going to support and maintain a
system of State parks, it should also provide for the neces-