HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(2) (i) A facility to which money is entrusted shall
deposit the money in an account if the facility cannot keep the
money safely.

(ii) If the facility is operated by a State,
county, or municipal agency and one resident entrusts more than
$300 to the facility, the facility shall deposit the amount in
excess of $300.

(iii) If the facility is operated by a person
other than a State, county, or municipal agency and one resident
entrusts more than $100 to the facility, the facility shall
deposit the amount in excess of $100.

(iv) If the total amount of money that is
entrusted to the facility by its residents exceeds [$10] $50 per
resident, the facility shall deposit the amount in excess of
[$10] $50 per resident or [$500] $1,000, whichever is less.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1984.

May 29, 1984
The Honorable Benjamin L. Cardin
Speaker of the House of Delegates
State House
Annapolis, Maryland 21404

Dear Mr. Speaker:

In accordance with Article II, Section 17 of the Maryland
Constitution, I have today vetoed House Bill 1421.

House Bill 1421 would reverse a recent Court of Appeals
decision in State of Maryland v. Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, 296 Md. 67 (1983) which held that Baltimore City and
all counties in the State are liable for the payment of criminal
court costs in cases where criminal charges are disposed of
favorably to the accused such as an acquittal, a nolle prosequi,
a stet, a dismissal, or an abatement because of the death of an
accused, or when the accused is convicted but deemed indigent, or
where the defendant is fined not in excess of fifteen cents.

The President of the Maryland Court Clerks Association has
advised me that if this bill were to become law its fiscal
implications would severely impede the ability of the Clerks of
Court to perform their many constitutional and statutory
responsibilities. I agree. Moreover, House Bill 1421 works at