Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-07


This figure, less the amount budgeted
for 1892, would leave balance to start
1888 Of $S.I50,158.77.
The budget allowance for the fiscal
year Of 1888 was set at $50, 1879, 414.27,
which would be taken care Of by the
1892 surplus, $12,7B7,415 from general
funds and $22, 4o8, S64.I4 from special
funds. These figures, at the close OF the
fiscal year Of 1888, would leave o cash
surplus of $1,763, 023.64.
Among the construction recommends
tions made by the Governor were i'm
provementS to the State normal schools
AT Frostburg, S3l 900; Towson, $780,
600; Salisbury, 5000, 600; to the Train
ing School for Boys, and the Montrose
School for Girls, $3.50. 900, and a total
of 81, 800, 900 for hospitals for the feeble
minded.
An appropriation Of 100000 for the
new Washington County Penitentiary
was recommended. To this will be add
ed an unexpended surplus from the APP
preparation made by the 1929 session
for the purchase Of site for the prison
In Washington County. Other appro-
priations bring the total for penal in
situations to $1,060,000.
New Hospital Asked.
The Governor recommended appro-
priation Of 81 100000 for the construc-
ton of a new university hospital in
Baltimore, which is conducted as part
Of the University Of Maryland Medical
School.
Construction for the University Of
Maryland at College Park in the amount
Of 5000, 900 was recommended. This
fund would be used for improvements to
the buildings at College Park in &C
cordance with a plan to be worked out
by the regents of the university.
Provisions for a State armory at
CheStertcwn and Towson; improvements
and repairs for other armories and i'm
provementS to the State Military Camp
a Cascade, Md, totaled $250.000.
Completion of the marine laboratory
at a cost of $4,000, completion of ad-
dition to the Annapolis Emergency Hos
pital, to cost $4,000; Improvements at
st. Mary's Female Seminary, to cost
1908; remodeling buildings at the
Maryland School for the Deaf, $4,000;
the completion and rebuilding and re-
modelling Of the State tobacco ware
house, $34,375, and an appropriation Of
SIS. 900 for the State Forestry Depart
ment were included in the construction
Road and Bridge Work.
Road and bridge bonds recommended
for reconstruction Of bridges total $2,-
1000.
State appropriations for schools for
1882 were placed at SIS, 445,04 and for
1888 at 1881 $50, continuing the grad
ual increase which has continued since
1922.
Establishment of full-time health ON
GERS in each county was recommended
to continue the work Of the public
health forces which, he said, had brought
about q significant decrease in the gen.
eral death rate and in the number Of
cases of communicable diseases. A san
itary district for each of the % coun-
ties instead of the 10 now in force also
was. recommended to provide for the
mach tnery for fuIl-time health depart
merts In all the counties. A bill to
provide this districting will be intro
duced, the Governor said
For the first time In the history Of
the State care of the insane in Mary
land our mental hospitals are not
crowded and are able to care for all
patients needing admission" Gov.
Ritchie declared, but he recommended
construction of 100-bed unit to care
for colored feeble-L-inded children, for
and additional buildings
at other institutions to cost 81 800, 900
and provide $50 additional beds.
State Penal Institutions.
Crowded conditions at the State peni-
Tertiary and the House Of Correction
were cited by the Governor, who said
an additional problem would be created
in 1884, when the law prohibiting in
terstate shipment Of prison-made goods
becomes effective. The new penitentiary
aRvy H.
provide some relief in providing out
door employment in fields, quarries and
construction work.
Extension Of the parole system was
advocated by the Governor, who said
that legislation looking to this end
would be introduced.
Funds for improvement and better
ment Of conditions at the State correc-
tional institutions for juveniles were
recommended.
Amendments to present statutes rails
ing the exclusive Jurisdiction of juve-
nile courts from 16 to 10 years and
giving circuit judges the right to sit as
juvenile judges when there is no juve-
nile court in the counties were favored.
The plan for construction Of central
aims houses for the Eastern and West
ern Shores, study of which was left
in the hands OF commissions appointed
last year, still needs study, he said
At the close Of the 1880 fiscal year
the State had constructed 3,2l5 miles
OF improved roads, which amounted to
81 7-10 per cent Of the total mileage
in the State, he said, and advocated the
construction of new lateral roads in
the several counties, pursuant to the
demand Of boards Of county commits
sioners and the people themselves.
81 Bridges Planned.
The Road Commission, he said, had
completed o survey which called for a
program for construction or rebuilding
OF "a bridges, at a cost of $3.50, 900,
Of which 100000 was to be asked of
this Legislature Fifty grade-crossing
eliminations, reconstruction and road
addition projects were favored.
Highway funds, he said, would come
from the usual Sources-the license
fees and gasoline tax-and the alloca-
ton Of these was split on an 1920
basis between the counties and Balti-
more City. Estimated receipts and ex-
penditureS of highway funds were set
at $12,55o,6S8 for 1882 and $l3,645, 81I
These funds were allocated to lateral
road construction, embarrassing elm
nation, reconstruction and widening,
maintenance, post-road construction and
bridge construction.
Recodiflcation Of the general motor
vehicle laws to make them conform
with uniform laws Of the National
Conference on Street and Highway
Safety, new registration Of motor We
hicle operators, establishment Of q sta
tistical bureau for classification of mo-
tor vehicle accidents, readjustnept Of
registration fees and compulsory noti-
6cation Of change of address by motor
vehicle owners also were recommended
by the Governor.
Recommendations Of the Motor We
hicle Department for legislation assur-
ing commentator to persons injured In