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ordinary circumstances, to confusion. When the circum-
stances are extraordinary, as I already have noted, there
remains the appeal to the Governor.

I am further of the opinion that county and municipal
demands upon the State Police should be made as sparingly
as possible. The primary function of the State Police always
has been the patrol of our highways, the control of traffic,
the prevention of highway accidents, and the arrest of road
law violators. These duties become more pressing with our
advances in highway construction and the increase in the
number of vehicles using our roads.

Therefore, I am returning House Bill 5 to you without my
approval.

Respectfully,

Theodore R. McKeldin,
TRMcK:Q/js                         Governor

TEACHERS' SALARIES

March 27, 1952
Honorable George W. Delia
President of the Senate
State House
Annapolis, Maryland

Dear Mr. President:

In denying my approval for Senate Bill 7, which I am
herewith returning to you, I refer you to the second para-
graph in my message vetoing Senate Bill 48. Here again is
an instance of appropriating for a year for which there are
as yet no revenue estimates and no general indication of
required expenditures.

It is, of course, true that we have in our budgets other
mandatory expenditures that carry over and, in some in-
stances, automatically increase from year to year. Origin-
ally, however, they were enacted in the session prior to the
beginning of the fiscal year in which they were to become
effective for the first time, and were, from then on, included
in the orderly estimates of revenues and expenditures with
the preparation of each new budget.

This bill to increase the annual increments in teachers'
salaries from the present $100 a year to $150 a year is based
on no estimates, but merely on an arbitrary order for the
fiscal officials of the State to find the necessary revenue for
financing it in the fiscal year of 1954.

I also refer you to the final paragraph of the veto message