The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-01-14

OF the House of Correction telegraph.
The offices of State tax commissioner
and insurance commissionerthe Gov
ernOr thinks are useless and should be
abolished, and the duties of both
offices RENTED TO the comptroller. to
whose department. in the Governors
opinion, they properly belong. The
office of land commissioner is held to
be useless, and the office itself an un
necessary burden upon the treasury
and should be abolished. The offices
of weighers of grain and hay he also
thinks are useless to the State.
The subject of legislative expenses
is gone into at length, and suggestions
made for their future regulation, az
well as reduction. In the department
of public printing and the item of
publication of the laws the Governor
is of opinion that "there can he a
judicious saving of at least SIC, 1000"
The system adopted by the State of
Virginia is explained and contrasted
in point of economy. The Governor
recommends that the public printing,
binding. &C., be let to the lowest res
ponsible bidder, the execution of the
work to be under the supervision of
superintendent, and that the publ
cation of the laws in the newspapers
be confined to such laws as the Coy
ernor and Encouragement may des-
lgnate as necessary to be published.
The Governor recommends a COM
plete reorganization of the State
fishery force, or "oyster navy" with
view both to its greater efficiency
and economy; the turning over of
the police sloops to the counties for
the protection of their local revenues
from licenses for longing. &C., and
the establishment of dredging dis
tricts to be 6redged in different years,
the expense of the State oyster police
to be borne fy tax on the sale of
oysters by the gallon and bushel, the
tax to be paid through stamps and
permits.
The abolition ofcompulsory tobacco
inspection is recommended changes
in the mode of administration of the
House of Correction are suggested;
reduction in the number of man.
ayers. the institution itself to be put
as far as possible on the footing of the
penitentiarv. In regard to the taxa
ton of mortgages, the Governor rec
ommends an equitable distribution
or division of the tax between the
mortgage debt and real estate covered
by it, as being most conformable to
the requirement of the bill of rights.
that every man should contribute to
the support of government according
to his actual worth.
The Governor urges new registra-
ton of voters, to be repeated bien-
nially in this city and at longer in
tervals in the counties; also further
and more stringent legislation to in
sure the purity of elections and the
fairness of the canvass and return
made of the votes also that primary
elections should be brought within
The regulation and sanction of the
election laws. The necessity of adj
iltlonal and more pointed legislation
lpon the subject of bribery and cor.
upton at elections and for the SUD-
preston of legislative lobbying is
Ilso insisted upon. The appointment
u off1cers by the Legislature is con-
lemned as contrary to the true theory
II government. and also the system
# dual or tripartite appointments
made by the board of public works
r other chief officers of the State.
The Governor objects to the appIi-
alton of any. part of the "repair
onds," authorized to be issued by
ne Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Com
any under the act of 1873, chapter
3, to the purpose of lengthening the c
anal locks, as being foreign to the !
urpose for which the bonds were e
lthOrized. 6
The Governor recommends that
re veto power conferred upon the
oyernor by the constitution should
enlarged oas to enable him to veto D
articular items in an appropriation p
III without vetoing the whole bill fl
SO that he be authorized to appoint o
unpaid commission to investigate t,
e subject of encouraging immigra- ii
On into the State, and concludes by k
lowing his readiness to co operate y
it'll the legislature in every useful Ell
easure. is
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