1964 VETOES.

really be applicable to only three counties of the State. Fur-
thermore, it authorizes the county commissioners to apply to
the Board of Public Works for funds with which to finance
the acquisition of voting machines and, in the event the
Board of Public Works approves the application, the Gov-
ernor is directed to include in the budget the necessary funds
for that purpose. Section 85 of Article 33 of the Code as it
now stands authorizes, but does not direct, all the counties to
use voting machines. The pending Bill revokes that authority
and if any of the seventeen counties excepted from its terms
desire to use voting machines, it will be necessary for them to
seek further legislation to that end. It seems to me that this
Bill is unwise, both from the standpoint of depriving seven-
teen counties of the right to use voting machines and in that
it creates moral obligation upon the part of* the State to aid
the counties in financing the acquisition of voting machines.
I have therefore vetoed this Bill.

WASHINGTON COUNTY

SENATE BILL No. 94

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 22 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Wash-
ington County", sub-title "Justices of the Peace and Con-
stables", sub-heading "Juvenile Court", to be known as Sec-
tion 576, giving to the Magistrate for Juvenile cases original
jurisdiction to hear, try and determine cases involving de-
sertion or wilful neglect by a husband or father to provide
for the support and maintenance of his wife or minor child
or children as contemplated by Section 89 of Article 27 of
the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland (1947 Supple-
ment), and to provide for an appeal to the Circuit Court for
Washington County.

This Bill is designed to amend the Public Local Laws of
Washington County relating to the Magistrate for Juvenile
Causes. The Bill as passed confers original and exclusive
jurisdiction upon the Magistrate for Juvenile Causes to hear,
try and determine cases involving desertion or wilful neglect
by a husband or father to provide for the support and mainte-
nance of his wife or minor child or children in accordance with
Section 89 of Article 27 of the Code. Section 89 of Article 27
of the Code has been construed by the Court of Appeals to pro-
vide for two offenses; namely, desertion of wife or minor chil-
dren and wilful neglect to provide for the support and mainte-
nance of wife and minor children. Desertion may include the
offense of non-support, but non-support may exist without
desertion. It could hardly have been intended that the Magis-