1949] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 11

available until after the first of next year, I believe it in order
that consideration be given to a plan for making sufficient money
immediately available to carry forward the work now in progress
and planned for an early start.

The situation in which certain areas of the State find them-
selves is of such a critical nature with respect to the need for
additional classroom construction that I believe every possible
means should be adopted to speed the work on the necessary
buildings.

Therefore, I recommended and will submit for your consideration
a proposal that legislative authority be written into the $50,000,000
loan bill to permit up to $4,000,000 to be advanced from cash in
the Treasury on applications for loan funds, with provisions that
this money be returned to the Treasury upon the issuance of the
authorized bonds.

If this proposal is adopted, it will not be necessary for the areas
in immediate need of funds from the $50,000,000 loan to wait for
them for another sixty to ninety days until the bonds are adver-
tised, sold and the cash payment is made for them by the
purchasers.

While the extraordinary session was called for the purpose of
dealing with this urgent problem, three other matters of an emer-
gency nature have been brought forward for consideration, and on
them I recommend that the General Assembly take favorable action.

Because it also relates to education, I will deal first with the
proposed reenactment of the measured passed by the 1949 General
Assembly creating an issue of $350,000 in bonds for construction
at the Maryland School for the Blind.

This bill is technically deficient in that it fails to provide for the
retirement of the debt created within the fifteen-year limit estab-
lished by the Constitution, but as it stands, would have this retire-
ment extended over a period of fifteen years and three months.
The only change necessary in the measure proposed for reenact-
ment is a rearrangement of dates to bring it within the allotted
constitutional period of fifteen years.

The third proposal which I recommend for consideration during
this extraordinary session of the General Assembly is the appro-
priation, from surplus in the Treasury, of the sum of $300,000 to
supplement the funds of the Department of Public Works.

This $300,000 which is to be matched by local sub-divisions, is
for the purpose of extending emergency aid to unemployed employ-
ables hitherto denied assistance by the regulations of the Depart-
ment of Public Welfare.

The amount of this emergency appropriation is calculated on
data compiled by the Department of Public Welfare and the