Evening star., 1945-01-31
Gov. 0'Ccnor Siqns
"a More Bills; Work
10 Start on Tax Cut
Totol of ~ Measures
Enoeted in First Month
Of Present Session
BY the Associated Press.

VT rreSent SeSSIon
By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 81. - Gov
O'Conor, the presiding officers an,
clerks of both Houses of the Mary
land General Assembly signed 8
bills today-most of them minor re
pealers or corrections-to run tn,
total to A for the current session.
One, which came into the Genera
Assembly with Legislative Council
backing, provides that gross incom,
under terms of the State income ia,
law shall not include dividends re-
ceived from stock of National bank
located and operating outside O
Maryland.
Another income tax law change
forbids payment by the State of in.
terest on refunded money in case
where the error was on the part o.
the taxpayers.
A new plan, which began its legis.
, 1ative career in the House, gives free
passage to funerals over turnpikes
bridges or ferries
All but two of the bills signed
those being local measures-hao
Legislative Council sanction before
introduction in the General AS
sembly.
Record Set.
The "A bills already signed created
a new record for the first month OF
a General Assembly session.
Meanwhile, the Senate Finance
Committee was slated to consider a
measure which would extend
through 1916 mandatory one-third
reduction from the legal State in
come tax payments of individuals.
The income tax measure is backed
by the administration and calls for
continuance of the law passed by
the 1943 Legislature reducing by
one-third payments on income re-
ceived in the 1912, 1943 and 1914
calendar years.
The basic income tax payment,
under the law, is 2 per cent annually
on earned income and per cent
on unearned income.
Senate Passes 70 Bills.
The Senate passed % bills yes
terday, including 10 already ap-
proved by the House of Delegates.
Three of the latter included those
which would exclude from provisions
of the State Standard Salaries
Board the faculties of State colleges;
would allow clerks of courts to ad-
minister oaths to special police
men, and would raise from three to
sixteen years the age of children,
desertion of whom would constitute
a misdemeanor.
Most of the others were local in
nature or minor repealers.
Another bill introduced in the
Senate would exempt servicemen
from obtaining hunting and fishing
licenses. The 16 others brought be-
fore the Senate were local bills.
A resolution referred to the Sen
ate Federal Relations Committee
would request the Maryland dele
cation in Congress to press for a
revision of the Social Security Act
to add fourth category to general
assistance $50 as to provide for
those in need but who under the act
are not eligible for old-age assist
ance, and to the blind or aid to de-
pendent children"
House Approves Measures.
It was introduced by Senators
Bernard I Gonder of Garrett and
Stephen P. Campbell, jr., of Balti-
more, Democrats.
The House held routine session,
passing measures and receiving II
new ones.
Three of the bills passed relate to
State police affairs and others
would restrict seine and net fishing
in Back and Middle Rivers, provide
methods of medical care for in
digents and remove the ban on the
catching of black bass in July.
Among the bills introduced in the
lower chamber were those which
would make mandatory the teach
ing of Maryland geography in the
public schools, extend to June l.,
1947, the time in which any of the
States political subdivisions could
issue bonds for public works made
necessary by the war effort, and
make it unlawful for a lessee of
personal property to remove it be-
yond limits of county or city where
leased with intent to defraud.
The medical aid bill would estab-
lish a bureau of medical services to
administer the program of care for
indigents. 1t now goes before the
upper chamber.