TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD

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Highlights of Tawes Administration, Second Term,

1963-1967 ......................................

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MESSAGES TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY:

The Second Inaugural Address of Governor J. Millard

Tawes, January 9, 1963 ..............................

1

Abbreviated Budget Message, Governor J. Millard

Tawes, January 22, 1963 ............................

5

State of the State Message, and Abbreviated Budget

Message, February 5, 1964 ...........................

13

Address, Opening of the General Assembly, Special

Session, November 6, 1964 ...........................

25

State of the State and Abbreviated Budget Message,

January 21, 1965 ...................................

30

Address, Special Session of the General Assembly,

October 11, 1965 ...................................

39

State of the State and Abbreviated Budget Message,

January 19, 1966 ...................................

42

Address, Modernization of State Government, March

22, 1966 ...........................................

53

AGRICULTURE:

Remarks, Recognition Dinner for Master Farm Fami-

lies, Annapolis, October 19, 1964 .....................

71

Address, Future Farmers of America State Convention,

University of Maryland, College Park, June 24, 1966 ....

72

APPALACHIAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

Remarks, President's Appalachian Regional Commis-

sion Conference, Hagerstown, November 22, 1963 ......

77

Statement Before the House Public Works Committee,

Washington, D. C., May 21, 1964 ....................

79

Address, Lions Club, Kitzmiller, July 19, 1965 ...........

82

Statement on Approval of Appalachian Grant for

Garrett County, Annapolis, May 13, 1966 ...

86

CITIZENSHIP AND PATRIOTISM:

Remarks, YMCA Youth Legislature, Annapolis, April

26, 1963 ...........................................

89

Remarks, Loyalty Day Celebration, Choptank, Memo-

rial Post 7460, V. F. W., Cambridge, May 4, 1963 ......

90

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