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4:00 A. M.

4:47 a.m. - Barbara Lyde, one of the
Baltimore Data Center's computer op-
erators, prints $2.1 million worth of
unemployment insurance checks.

5:00 A. M.

5:02 a.m. - Byron Cover and Delores
Krasauskis leave on a six-hour drive
to Norfolk, Virginia, to do an inventory
as part of a cigarette tax audit.

5:34 a.m. - Motor Fuel Inspector Lee
Williams checks for proper markings,
registration and transport documents
on a petroleum transporter at the
truck weigh station on 1-70 in Howard
County.

5:46 a.m. - Christine Leiben process-
es income tax withholding remittances
using check encoding equipment,
helping earn substantial extra interest
on deposits. The state earns interest
on its encoded deposits from
9:00 a.m., even though they are not
picked up for deposit until late after-
noon.

6:00 A. M.

6:31 a.m. - Ernestine Klima checks
the lockbox at the main Baltimore
Post Office to be certain the bank is
promptly crediting the state's ac-
counts with income tax withholding
deposits made through the lockbox.

6:40 a.m. - Dale Riley assigns a tem-
porary identification badge to an em-
ployee arriving for work who left his
permanent badge at home.

And so it goes....

Christine Leiben spends the early morning
hours operating check encoding equipment,
processing income tax withholding pay-
ments.

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