The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-06-29
MARYLAND PUBLIC WORKS
COMMITTEE IS APPOINTED
Group For Sixth Congressional
District Will Meet on July
10 at Cumberland
WILL DISCUSS PROJECTS

The Maryland public works commit
tee for the Sixth Congressional Dis
trict will hold three meetings soon to
hear proposals for projects under the
recently enacted Federal public works
act, according to announcement this
morning by Congressman David j.
Lewis, chairman of the committee.
Thomas B. Finan, of Cumberland,
and Holmes D. Baker, of Frederick,
are the other members of the COM
mittee.
The committee will hold its first
meeting at Frederick on July Z to
hear proposals for Montgomery and
Frederick counties, its second meeting
on July 8 at Hagerstown to hear pro-
posals for Washington county, and its
third meeting at Cumberland on July
10 to hear proposals for Garrett and
Allegany counties.
Each of the meetings will open at
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of the City Hall at the designated
cities unless there is public announce
ment to the contrary.
Congressman Lewis said that Off
Gals of county and municipal govern
ments have been advised of the meet
ings by letter, but that because no
complete list was available of other
interested bodies he was making pub
lie announcement of the meetings so
that all the parties would be advised.
"All interested parties in the sixth
district" Mr.. Lewis stated, ARE cor
daily invited to be in attendance at
the proper meeting and advance what
ever eligible projects they may have"
Representative Lewis said that pre-
sentation of projact before the COM
mittee should be made in two ways,
namely, by a thorough and detailed
typewriter statement in triplicate,
and then by a short oral statement be-
fore the committee by an official, or a
designated representative, OF the poll
teal subdivision, semi-official or in
terested body which is advancing the
project.
Projects which are eligible under
the law, Mr.. Lewis stated, are any OF
a public nature involving construction
or improvement of highways, park
ways, and buildings. In addition, ne
said, projects for the utilization and
publication of waters, for river and
flood control, and for prevention of
soil erosion, ETC., are eligible.
The meetings, Mr.. Lewis said, will
have no. relation to the highway pro-
gram under the public works law.
This, he said, is being handled as a
separate program by the Maryland
State Roads Commission, and high
way projects should be presented to
the Commission, not advanced at any
of the three meetings in this district.
As to the financing of eligible pro-
iects, the Congressman said the law
specifies that the government will
make grant outright of not to eX-
coed $50 percentum of the cost of the
labor and material employed" This
means, he said, that 70 per centum OF
the cost is to be borne by the local
community.
However, Mr.. Lewis said, the law
provides that the government may
finance the other 70 per cent of the
cost of the project by loans to the
local community, provided such loans
are reasonably" secured, and the
local community is able to satisfy the
President that its budget is such as
to "bring the ordinary current ex-
penditures within the prudently esti-
mated revenues"
The sixth district committee is one
of six committees appointed by Cover
nor Richie to survey public works
projects in each of the six Congress
sional districts of the state.
After the district committees have
made their surveys, their projects
will be submitted to the Maryland Ad-
ministrator of Public Works, who, in
turn, will submit them to the Federal
Administrator.
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