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improvement program wholly, or at least in large part, on a "pay-as-
you-go" basis; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That this Body
urges, as a matter of legislative policy, the clear wisdom of a new
policy in capital expenditures whereby the State would begin on at
least a partial "pay-as-you-go" basis, with the expectation that over
a period of years the cumulative effects of this partial policy would
permit the State, either wholly or at least in large part, to be financing
its capital expenditures without the necessity of borrowing money;
and be it further

Resolved, That executive and budgetary officials of the State of
Maryland be urged and requested, in the preparation of the annual
budget and capital improvement programs from year to year, to
follow this policy to the extent at least of providing for some of the
capital improvements being proposed to be paid from current funds;,
and be it further

Resolved, That members of the General Assembly be urged to give
favorable consideration to the allocation of surplus or other funds to
the payment of capital expenditures, as for example in the manner
provided in Senate Bill 52 of 1955.

No. 23
(Senate Joint Resolution 9)

Joint Resolution urging the Department of Forests and Parks to revise
its master plan for land acquisition and to use it as a basis for all
future acquisition of lands.

Whereas, During an extended review of State budgetary policy
by the Committee on Taxation and Fiscal Matters in the months be-
tween the 1955 and the 1956 sessions of the General Assembly of
Maryland, the Committee considered the land acquisition program
of the Department of Forests and Parks and concluded that this
program appears to have been executed without regard to the master
plan for the acquisition of land which was adopted by that Depart-
ment a number of years ago; and

Whereas, It appeared to the Committee on Taxation and Fiscal
Matters to be an important item of State policy that the Department
of Forests and Parks should revise its master plan for land acquisi-
tion, if necessary and then to use it as a basis for all future acquisi-
tions of land; now, therefore, be it

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.