Time will not permit a detailed report in this message of the
activities and programs of the many other departments and agencies
of State Government — Motor Vehicles, Correction, Chesapeake Bay
Affairs, State Police, and so on. In an examination of the detailed
budget you will see that funds have been allotted to them in amounts
sufficient to allow them to carry on the important functions which
they now perform.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Aware of the importance to the people of a strong economy, efforts
will continue unabated to attract new industry to our State and to
develop the ever-growing tourist trade. You will be asked during the
session to appropriate on a contingent basis $2 million as the State's
share in the construction of a science center of the Maryland Academy
of Science in Baltimore, a project to be financed jointly by the State,
the City of Baltimore and private interests. Having within its confines
or on its borders the great research centers of the Federal Government
and some of the country's most renowned educational institutions,
Maryland has become one of the most attractive areas in the entire
country for science-based industry. It is essential that we hold that
position. The creation of the science center is one of the means by
which we hope to do this.

Finally in the budget, I would point out to you that a sum of
$7, 600, 000 is earmarked to increase the pay of some 25, 000 State
employees. Government cannot operate successfully without com-
petent personnel, and competent personnel cannot be recruited and
retained unless they are paid salaries commensurate with the work
they are asked to perform. I would recommend that you grant these
pay increases at this session.

Before I depart from the subject of finances, I should like to make
an observation about the problem of the State's financial relationship
with Baltimore City and the twenty-three counties. I have been
advised by its Chairman that the Commission on State and County
Finance expects to submit a preliminary report of its studies and
recommendations early in this session. The report is being submitted
at this time in order that it may be studied thoroughly by the Com-
mittee on Taxation and Fiscal Matters of the Legislative Council and
all others concerned And now we turn from finances to the subject
of legislation "for the general melioration, " or if you prefer, the
general betterment of the condition of the people.

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