Volume 82 · 53
Public Law 90–273
Calling on the Boy Scouts of America to serve the youth of this Nation as required by their congressional charter.
Approved March 26, 1968
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
Calling on the Boy Scouts of America to serve the youth of this Nation as required by their congressional charter.
Whereas the Boy Scouts of America has acted under a congressional charter since 1916, serving over forty million boys with a program that develops physical fitness, character, and citizenship; and
Whereas the Boy Scouts of America has achieved significant results in preventing and reducing juvenile delinquency; and
Whereas the Boy Scouts of America has extended its program to disadvantaged boys in the deprived areas of urban and rural areas of our Nation; and
Whereas there is an increasing need for training boys to become responsible citizens in accord with the ideals and principles of the Scout oath and law; and
Whereas the Boy Scouts of America gives strong support to the home, the religious institution, the school and communities in the training, education, and development of youth; and
Whereas the Congress is called upon to assist and promote programs of promise in these critical areas: Therefore be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Congress of the
Boy Scouts of America.
United States calls on the Boy Scouts of America further to advance its service to the youth of this Nation as required by their congressional charter to the end that more boys in every segment of our society will be involved in its program and future generations of Americans will be better prepared with the skill and confidence to master the changing demands of America’s future and prepared to give leadership to it.
Approved March 26, 1968.