WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1911

WHEREAS, the United States has been using poison for the
purpose of clearing growth from the right of way of its rail-
road running from the Naval Powder Factory at Indian Head,
Maryland, to White Plains, Maryland; and

WHEREAS, the Maryland State Game Farm at Ripley, Mary-
land, borders on said railroad, and many partridges, rabbits,
deer and other game and wild fowl have been killed or are in
imminent danger of being killed, by contact with the poison,
and the conservation program of the State of Maryland has
accordingly suffered; and

WHEREAS, it is the understanding of the General Assembly
of Maryland that the Pennsylvania Railroad keeps clear its
right of way from Bowie to Pope's Creek without finding it
necessary to use poisons detrimental to wildlife; now there-
fore be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
United States be requested to discontinue the use of poisons
detrimental to wildlife for the purpose of clearing its right
of way from Indian Head to White Plains, Maryland; and be
it further

Resolved, That the Secretary of State be and he is hereby
directed to send a copy of this Resolution, under the Great
Seal of the State of Maryland, to the Governor of the State of
Maryland, the Secretary of the Navy, the United States Sena-
tors from Maryland, Congressman Lansdale G. Sasscer, and
the Commandant, U. S. Naval Powder Factory, Indian Head,
Maryland.

Approved April 22, 1949.

NO. 20

(House Joint Resolution 14)

House Joint Resolution in celebration of the Maryland Act of
Religious Tolerance passed in 1649.

WHEREAS, on April 21, 1649, the General Assembly of Mary-
land, by enacting the statute known as "An Act Concerning
Religion", became the first representative group of freemen
assembled to embody in American law the principle of re-
ligious toleration—a principle which had prevailed by custom
since the foundation of the colony; and