American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper., 1846-01-01
VERNOR'S MESS A GE.
emsn Of the Senate,
and Of the House Of Debgatss

Int OF the preceding Legislature, and
nding the adoption of such measures
y 1inion would best conser Ve the honor
~ the interest Of the people. The
y had set apart icr he discharge of
Ns been occupied with domestic af-
ID this Message Ill be consequent
Use than will + s~ factory to you,
20 myself
l,s init ''.dg IL our country all en-
f Jlic ION is the surest criterion
Hord e false to the station | oc-
. nouid regardful Of misdirected
.eme1. I any section Of the State)
3ommen3 The continuance and adoP-
ch mea ucs, as in my judgment will
1 aly r. Iee'n he public credit, and pro-
vel n. d our common constituency.
.narrigl condition Of the State we'll
the ninent position assigned 10 its
cratic d.. my immediate predecessor in
his AnGdal Messages TO the Legsla-
Witl! an anxious desire Oh his part to
lie "so,on,card ttndency"of the public
{ W as his painful duty, year after year,
Aun" o to the Legislature the entire mad
he existing laws, if fully executed,
III current demands upon the trea-
III 4 20 point out the fatal error in the
alion of the State by which the Ex-
ranch of the government had been
II q Of the power originally vested in it to
the laws which had been passed. In
Message he made known to the Legis-
the effect of the combined causes
ssigned, ,.he inadequacy of the tax
" | the want of power in the executive
, e them) that the arrears of interest had
v ively increased from $859, ,656, on the
december, 1912, to Sl,l7l,S72 on the
4 December, 1913; and to Sl,450,96 on
4 f December, 1914; and that IN seven
5 of the State the tax laws were not
2, gentlemen, to discharge the more
duty of informing you, that collec-
le State tax have been appointed, and
irect tax is now being collected in
ftion of the State, except in Calvert
there the collector has been unable to
. assessment books from the tax COM
Us.
"a still greater pleasure in announcing
or fact that, during the past fiscal year,
zee zen received and applied to the ex-
ave It of arrears Of interest, a sum grea-
W accruing interest tor that period.
have labored assiduously, and ,
' successfully, to produce. tbs de-
\ ron, !, it is my duty to inform you, that
nv cannot be attributed to any actual
aiti which the Executive is clothed, to
q the due execution of the revenue laws
g State.
o causes have prominently contributed to
the indisposition manifested in some
of the State, to pay the taxes heretofore
sed By the Legislature, First, the mani
md proclaimed inadequacy Of those laws,
ily enforced, to pay the interest on the
C debt; and secondly, the Executive an
iation of the want Of authority to enforce
followed by the actual non-observancc
os, laws in several counties of the State.
e,ple Of Maryland, always anxious TO
tain the honor and credit OF their State,
un~ble to,apereciato the utility Of a sys-
of taxation admitted TO be inadequate to
end; and the success, which has attended
,forts to give vitality to the system, is to
tributed to the energetic action of the last
Stature, by which the determination was
ced 10 provide sufficient means for the aC-
blisb nent of this desirable object
le due execution of the laws Is as essen
is their enactment; and it will be a duty
mbent upon you, (Which cannot too ur-
ly press upon your attention., to clothe the
,utlve with such powers as will convince
,eople, that for the future, the revenue
will be fully and impartially executed in
Y part of the State. Your immediate pre-
ssoFs, have no doubt, believed they had
mplished this object, by giving TO the pre-
as recommended by him, the
sr of appointing collectors irrespective OF
ence, in all cases where collectors had not
le tenth of May in each year, duly quail
mder appointment of the county authori-
The design of the Legislature was to
e the Executive with the power TO ap-
: collectors whenever the county authori-
hould neglect or refuse to discharge that
1; out the power, as conferred, unaccompa-
with the power to compensate the persons
ted, was of course nugatory. The Rak-
,er TO appoint was conferred upon the
tive, but the power TO pay was still left
he county authorizes; and as this power
My to be exercised by the Executive upon
ntingency of the refusal of the county
titles to appoint, it is manifest that the
causes which would occasion the non.
rye of the duty to appoint, would more
fully operate to prevent their paying The
.rtive appointees. have no doubt thai
omission to confer this power was an over.
upon the part of you predecessors, and
no hesitancy in expressing the opinion
lis the Executive should be clothed by you
the power to compensate (within the Ii
nov prescribed to the county authorities,
electors hereafter to be appointed by him
you will ensure the future appointment o
fed collectors throughout the State.
is net, however, alone necessary that yor
I'd provide for the certain appointment o
er collectors of the State tax; it is equal
initial that you should, with equal ceriain
oyide your collectors with the pOtcer t,
arge their duty
nder the exlstiIg law, the whole machine
may SO cypress myself, of the reve
stem of tle State, is under the contro
Management Of, county authorities, il
ses elected by the people of the coun
lwholB irresponsible to the State an
$aAIhosgh the assessment under tn
arJf ls4i, was made by State autho