Evening star., 1948-05-28
11Montgomery,
Prince Georges
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Assembly Approves
Measures for Other
Nearby Counties
BY q stoff Correspondent Of The s'or


ANNAPOLIS, May 28.- Eleven
bills affecting Montgomery and
Prince Georges Counties today were
awaiting Gov. Lanes signature.
They were passed last night as
the special session of the General
Assembly closed, along with six
measures dealing with Calvert,
Anne Arundel County and Frederick
Counties
One Calvert bill would legalize
slot machines if approved at a
referendum June %. The other,
which authorized the Board of Edu-
cation to provide transportation for
parochial school students, created
a furry of debate when brought up
for final House action.
Two Bills Affect Commission.
Two of the II Montgomery
Prince Georges bills dealt with the
Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission. which serves both
counties. They would:
q Empower any master plumDer
registered in the Washington Sub
urban Sanitary District to make
sewer and water house connection
with permission of the commission.
Exclude the commissions sinking
fund of nearly S3000,000 and a ST.
10000 bond authorization of last
fall from the sanitary bodys bonded
indebtedness limitation of IA per
cent of the districts assessable basis.
The latter measure originally
would have excluded the commits
sions water bonds as well as the
sinking fund from the bonded in
debtedness limitation.
Delegates Agree to Change.
Members of the Montgomery and
Prince Georges delegations agreed
on the change in the final draft on
the ground it would enable the COM.
mission to issue approximately
sl0,00O.0000 worth of bonds until
the l949 session of the General AS
sembly.
At that time, according to the
delegates, the matter could be
studied further. The commission
said the present law practically pro-
hibits it from issuing additional
bonds, since it is already very
close" to the IA per cent limitation.
The remaining nine bills dealing
with the two counties would:
Authorize the Montgomery Coun-
ty public utility agent to enforce
taXicab regulations and other ord1-
nances at the direction of the coun-
fy commissioners
Increase the salaries of the Mont
gomery Board of Election super
visors
Permit the Montgomery commits
sioners to fix the salary of the
county controller.
Empower the Montgomery COM
misSioners to take similar action
with regard to the salaries of their
assistant clerks.
Judges Salaries Raised.
Increase the salaries of the Mont
eomery County Circuit Court judges
from $4,000 to S12,500 a year each.
This also affects Frederick County,
which has one judge on the court.
Four Eastern Shore counties were
tackled to the bill in the Senate,
Authorize the Montgomery County
commissioners to increase the sal
aries of the supervisor of assess
ments and county assessors.
Empower the Rockville Mayor and
Council to make street improvements
on receipt of petition signed by
the owners of 20 per cent of the
property abutting the proposed i'm
provements.
Authorize the Prince Georges
commissioners to regulate and IL
cense trailer camps.
Fix the amount of taxes to be i'm
posed on new construction in Prince
Georges County.
2 Montgomery Bills Killed.
Two other Montgomery County
bills were killed by the delegation.
One would authorize the county
commissioners to issue permits for
public works projects on Sundays. |
The other would empower them to
regulate the operation of dumps
The delegation said it had learned
after introducing the bills that the
county coIIlillSSlollelS Heday iaNS
such authority,
The Anne Arundel County legis-
lation would prohibit dog racing
with parimutuel betting and permit
raff1es by charitable and fraternal
organizations. The latter is subject
to a referendum at the November
general election.
Purchase by the State of 10l
acres at Gapland, to be developed
as a park, is provided in the Fred
erick County bill.