THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 1873

payment of a sum of money not in excess of one year's
salary as provided by Section 560 of the City Charter
(1949 Edition). To require the payment of a full pension
to Mr. Langley would create an exception in the law for
a single individual, which does not exist for anyone else.
It should be noted that no claim was made for a one year
lump sum payment under the provisions of Section 560,
which is all that the law permits.

2. Legislative interference to overrule administrative
determinations of the Police Commissioner of Baltimore
City is unwise. Any allegedly arbitrary or capricious action
can be judicially reviewed.

It appears from the papers submitted to me in this matter
that there might possibly have been relief granted to Mr.
Langley of a one year lump sum payment under Section
560, if timely application had been made and supporting
proof offered as to his mental condition. Whether or not
such an application could be entertained at this late date by
the present Commissioner, to review the action of his
predecessor in office is a question for determination by him,
if and when presented. Such application, if accepted for
determination, should rest in the sound discretion of the
Commissioner.

Respectfully,

(s) THEODORE R. MCKELDIN,
TRMcK/A Governor

HOUSE BILL NO. 266

May 5, 1953

Honorable John C. Luber
Speaker of the House of Delegates
State House
Annapolis, Maryland

Dear Mr. Speaker:

House Bill No. 266 would prohibit haul seining in the
waters of the Chesapeake Bay south of the Bay Bridge
between midnight Friday and sunup Monday" morning. The
restriction does not apply in the waters of the Bay north of
the bridge, nor in any part of Worcester County.

I have indicated my attitude towards conservation meas-
ures in the approval of various Acts passed at this session
of the General Assembly, as well as at prior sessions. How-
ever, I have been unable to ascertain any reasonable relation
between the discrimination established by this Bill and true
conservation practices. If the elimination of haul seining in