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Executive Records, Governor J. Millard Tawes, 1959-1967
Volume 82, Volume 2, Page 418   View pdf image (33K)
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well. A verdict that the affairs of our capital city have been handled
well is particularly reassuring. We hope that events will prove us
worthy of your generous praise. I approach the end of my service as
Governor of Maryland with mixed emotions—with a feeling of gratitude,
on the one hand, that a heavy burden is being lifted from my shoulders,
and with a feeling of regret, on the other, that an arduous, but on the
whole pleasurable, task is soon to end. One of the principal regrets
will be in leaving this charming little city in which Mrs. Tawes and
I have spent a delightful eight years. Both of us love the city and
have learned to think of it as our real home. The thought of leaving
it is distressing.

The Governor of Maryland is surrounded by rules, regulations, pro-
scriptions, prohibitions, all spelled out by the Constitution. The "the
Governor shall reside at the seat of government, " as stated in Section 21
of Article 2, is one of the requirements I am happy our forefathers
laid down, because residing at Annapolis has been one of the most
pleasant and rewarding of my experiences as the Chief Executive of
the State. I recall with a great deal of satisfaction that when I was
campaigning for the Governorship for the first time in 1958, I said
that I expected to be an "Annapolis Governor, " meaning that I in-
tended to interpret that clause of the Constitution requiring residence
in Annapolis quite literally. I have fulfilled that pledge, I hope, and
Marylanders now are keenly aware that the executive offices of their
State government are situated in this city—in Annapolis, their State
Capital.

In this connection, I have observed with interest and approbation
a trend during the past few years toward a greater concentration of
State government activities here—executive, legislative and judicial. The
President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Delegates,
who are guests here, have had a great deal to do with this changed
attitude—the attitude that Annapolis is indeed the Capital of Mary-
land and that as much of the government's activities as possible should
be carried on here. As examples of this trend, the Department of
Legislative Reference already has moved here from Baltimore. The
Legislative Council, and the various other between-session committees
of the Genera] Assembly, are holding more and more of their sessions
here. This, in my opinion, is a plausible trend and is worthy of our
encouragement.

Many of you who are here will remember a speech of Stewart L.
Udall, Secretary of the Interior, delivered when he was here about a
year ago to register the Colonial Annapolis Historic District as a Na-

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