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The bill, increasing the number of members of the Legislative
Council from 20 to 30, is a duplicate of House Bill 558, which has
been signed and is now Chapter 263 of the 1967 Laws of Maryland.

Sincerely yours,

(s) Spiro T. Agnew,

Governor.
Senate Bill No. 400—By the President.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 27 of
Article 40 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1966 Supplement),
title "General Assembly," subtitle "Legislative Council," increasing
the number of members who compose the Legislative Council of
Maryland and making provision for the ex officio and other members
of the Legislative Council.

The President put the question: shall the bill pass notwithstanding
the objections of the Executive?

The President announced the veto was sustained by roll call as fol-
lows:

Affirmative—None

Negative

Senators—

Mr. President, Anderson, Bailey, Bertier, Bertorelli, Bishop, Brubaker, Byron, Clark,
Connolly, Conroy, Curran, Dean, Dorf, Emanuel_; Finney, Friedler, Gore, Hall, Hart,
Hodges, Hoyer, Hughes (G.), Hughes (H.), Lapides, Lee, Malkus, Manning, Mitchell,
McCourt, McGuirk, Nock, Pine, Schweinhaut, Smelser, Snyder, Staszak, Staten, Steffey,
Steinberg, Stone, Welcome, Wineland.                                                           Total—43

May 4, 1967.

Honorable William S. James
President of the Senate
State House
Annapolis, Maryland

Dear Mr. President:

In accordance with Section 17 of Article II of the Maryland
Constitution, I have vetoed today Senate Bill 435 and am returning
it to you.

This bill would extend to graduates of dental schools in former
territories or possessions of the United States the right to apply for
examination by the Maryland Board of Dental Examiners to practice
dentistry. In practical effect, the only jurisdiction affected is the
Philippine Islands.

The Board of Dental Examiners, The American Dental Associ-
ation and other professional groups have urged me to veto the
measure, pointing out that no other state in the Nation accepts for
examination graduates of dental schools outside of the United States
and Canada; that the bill would give a professionally unmerited
preference to Philippine-trained dentists over other foreign-trained
dentists; and finally, that to permit persons to practice dentistry
without further training following graduation from a school over
which the American Dental Association exercises no control or per-