Evening star., 1941-03-05
Trailer Camp Bill
Calls for Regulation
In Prince Georges
Two Orphans Court
Measures Introduced by
Montgomery Delegates

BY q Staff Correspondent OF The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, March 5.-A bill to
regulate trailer camps and coaches
in Prince Georges County, a COM
panion measure to one to be intro
duced later covering tourist camps
and, homes, was introduced in the
House yesterday by the county dele
cation.
Montgomery County delegates
sponsored two bills relating to the
Orphans Court, one providing for
an increase in the judges salaries
and the other giving the court con-
current jurisdiction with the Circuit
Court in probate cases. Under
present law, the Orphans Court is
limited to cases where the appraised
value of real estate is not more
than $25 900.
The Montgomery delegation also
announced that the House Ways
and Means Committee will hold a
hearing at 2:30 pm tomorrow on
the controversial bill to give the
County Liquor Control Board
monopoly of the wholesale beer
business.
The bill, a local measure to ex-
tend the county's monopoly OF
liquor to include beer, has been re-
ferred to the Ways and Means Com
mittee instead of the local delega-
| ton because State revenue is in
volved.
The Ways and Means Committee
had been asked to hold the hearing
by representatives of the State Con-
troller's Office and by a group of
Montgomery County beer distribu-
tors, opposed to the bill, John S.
White, committee chairman, said.
Stipulates SIS Daily.
The salary bill would raise the
Orphans Court judges salaries from
So to SIS a day and increase the
limitation from $1,000 to 1900 a
year.
The trailer camp bill defines a
trailer camp as tract of land In
the unincorporated area of the
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coaches are maintained for three
days or more, or where space Is
rented for trailers or free space is
given to secure trade.
Permission to operate camp
would have to be obtained from the
county commissioners at a fee Of
S25 and the site would have to be
approved as to drainage, water and
sanitary facilities. A caretaker
would be required at all times to en-
force regulations, and a space of at
least 20 to Is feet would be required
for each trailer.
Refuse and garbage would have to
be burned or buried at least so feet
from any public highway and more
than 200 feet from any spring, well,
stream or source of water supply.
White Introduces Bill.
Delegate John S. White Of Prince
Georges County introduced State
wide measure providing that fines
and costs, which now are returned
in cases reversed in a higher court
or nolle pressed or where sentence
is suspended, will also be returned
when a case is placed on the State
docket.
The Senate yesterday passed the
bill introduced by Senator Charles
C. Marbury of Prince Georges Coun-
ty granting a perpetual right of way
to Mary E. Engel to property deed
ed to the University of Maryland; by
Senator Robert Peter of Montgom-
cry County specifically exempting
property of fire companies from tax
alton, and by Senator Louis N.
Phipps of Anne Arundel County
establishing a special taxing area
for Beverly Beach, permitting the
county commissioners to levy for
road maintenance and construction
and maintenance of wharves for use
| by pleasure craft.