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House Bill No. 575—State Roads, Talbot County

AN ACT to authorize and direct the State Roads Commission to take
over and maintain as a part of the State highway system that por-
tion of the Bozman—Neavitt Road in Talbot County extending
from the portion of said road now maintained by the State Roads
Commission through the village of Neavitt.

April 28, 1955

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

Dear Mr. Speaker:

I am returning herewith House Bill 575 without my approval. This
bill would require the State Roads Commission to take over and main-
tain as part of its highway system, the county portion of the Bozman-
Neavitt Road in Talbot County. I have consistently vetoed similar
types of legislation at previous sessions and see no reason for de-
parture from this course.

Legislative direction of a specific administrative problem of this
kind is undesirable and unwise as a matter of policy. This conclusion
is entirely apart from any determination of the merits of the proposal
embodied in the bill. It should be left to the Commission and its
expert advisers to determine its advisability. I am this day requesting
the Commission to study the problem and arrive at its own final in-
dependent conclusion as promptly as possible as to the extent, if any,
to which it might consistently comply with this expression of legis-
lative intent.

Respectfully,

(s) THEODORE R. MCKELDIN,

Governor
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House Bill No. 607—Harford County Tobacco Tax

AN ACT to add Section 490B to the Laws of Harford County (1942
Edition) being Article 13 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland, title "Harford County", sub-title "Taxes and County
Treasurer", said new section to follow after Section 490A thereof
as said section was enacted by Chapter 24 of the Acts of 1949,
giving to the Board of County Commissioners of Harford County
certain powers to impose, assess, levy and collect a tax upon the sale
of cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco products, and relating gen-
erally to the imposing, assessment, levying and collection of such
taxes.