The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-07-28
$4,000, 900 SAVINGS FROM 1914
BUDGET


Reversions To State Treasury Raise
Total For 8 Years TO $6,25O,OOO
The complete total of savings to
the State from unexpended depart
mental budget allotments in the ifs
cal year ending June 80 is expected
to reach $2,O00,O00, by far the high
est yearly budget savings on record,
figures released at the direction of
Governor Herbert r. O'Conor reveal
These savings, which, by law, will
revert to the General Treasury of
the State, are almost double the high
est previous total of $1,1O2,9S5, re-
verified by the various agencies for the
fiscal year 1941. These latest rever-
sions from appropriations to the
1914 fiscal year will raise to more
than $6,250,000 the total funds re-
turned to the State Treasury from
departmental and agency budget al
lotments during the O'Conor admin
istration.
Beginning with 1899, at the outset
of his Administration, and each year
thereafter, Governor O'Conor has is
sued an appeal to all State depart
ments, several months before the end
of the fiscal year, to conserve all
remaining balances, and under no
circumstances to apply such balances
to the purchase of articles not vitality
needed.
At the same time, to insure con-
tinuing check upon expenditures by
the departments, Governor O'Conor
arranged with the Department of the
Budget to make regular studies of
expenditures in order to see that no
unnecessary items or services were
purchased. The result, the Governor
believes, has been apparent at the
end of each fiscal year
Foremost among the departments
in the matter of reversions for the
past year is the State Department of
Public Welfare with a total unex-
pended balance of $4,000. Next in
total amount is the Public School
System with 1921, 900
A total of $225,OOO remains and
will be reverted from the 1943 bonus
account, the Governors statement
pointed out, and $4,000 has been
returned to the Treasury from the
Standard Salary appropriation for
1914 Brownsville State Hospital
with savings of $4,000; the Military
Department with total savings of
S69,SS2.2O from the State Guard,
Military State Police, and Reserve
Militia appropriations; and the Mary
land Tuberculosis Sanatoria with a
total of $4,000 are among the other
leaders in the matter of total savings
reverted.
Besides the fiscal year 1941, men
toned above, savings of more than
$1,O0O,O0O = $1,030,57S.9 - were
reverted for the fiscal year 1912. For
the fiscal years 1910 and 1943 the
amounts returned were approximate
ly equal, with $4,000 for 1910 and
$4,000 for 1943. In addition, of
course, 1913 returned S4.07S.S46 be-
cause of the shortening of the fiscal
year to nine months. The first fiscal
year of the present Administration,
1889, when Governor O'Conor's mi
tial appeal for conservation of bud
get funds was made, resulted in re-
versions of 1871, 2S0.
The above mentioned reversions of
100000 from budget appropria-
lions, the Governors release made
clear, are in addition to the $544,-
63S remaining from the War Elmer
gency and General Emergency Funds,
ALLEGATIONS from which were directly
under the Board of Public Works.
This total will, under the law, ac-
crue to the Postwar Construction
Fund of 100000 set up in the
Governors budget of 1943.