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be involved in attempts to give special treatment to particu-
lar individuals, however deserving, the Attorney General has
advised as follows:

"We have examined House Bill No. 392 which pro-
vides that Mrs. Helen C. Kelley shall be deemed to have
been re-employed by the State prior to January 1, 1950,
rather than in October, 1950. Mrs. Kelley was at one
time, so we are informed, a member of the Teachers
Retirement System and, in accordance with the pro-
visions of Code Article 77, Section 106 (6), should a
member of the Teachers Retirement System in any
period of six consecutive years be absent from service
more than five years, he shall thereupon cease to be a
member. It seems to us that House Bill No. 392, by
attempting to alter the effect of that law as to one
member, is in conflict with Section 33 of Article III of
the Constitution, which prohibits the General Assembly
from passing a special law for any case for which pro-
vision has been made by an existing general law. The
general law entitled her to an absence of five years,
and, in our view, the alteration of that provision for a
single member is invalid. "

I concur in the conclusion of the Attorney General as to
the unconstitutionally of this Bill.

Respectfully,

(s) THEODORE R. MCKELDIN,

Governor
TRMcK: R

HOUSE BILL NO. 409

May 5, 1953

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

Dear Mr. Speaker:

House Bill No. 409 authorizes the Board of Liquor License
Commissioners of Baltimore City to make changes of class
of existing licenses in restricted areas, providing such
changes does not increase the total number of licenses in
the area. No apparent necessity exists for the provisions
of this Bill. It would undoubtedly burden the Board with
a great number of non-meritorious applications from