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make, reasonable allowances for diverse religious, social and edu-
cational beliefs, it cannot hope to fulfill its educational responsibil-
ities to the State if it is deprived of its powers to perpetuate
reasonable and equitable standards.

Sincerely yours,

(s) Spiro T. Agnew,

Governor.

Senate Bill No. 468—By Senator Bailey.

AN ACT to add new Section 54A to Article 77 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1965 Replacement Volume), title "Public Edu-
cation," subtitle "Chapter 5. County Board of Education," to follow
immediately after Section 54 thereof, to provide for the applicability
of school laws, rules or regulations to schools in Charles, GARRETT
and St. Mary's Counties conducted or operated by certain religious
groups and to authorize the modification of such requirements by
the local boards of education in these counties.

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 21404

Dear Mr. President:

In accordance with Section 17, Article II, of the Maryland Con-
stitution, I have vetoed today Senate Bill 482 and am returning it
to you.

This bill would authorize additional State debt in the amount
of $20 million to aid in the construction and modernization of
voluntary non-profit hospitals. The bill supplements a previous
authorization of $50 million passed in 1964.

Although there is no question about the desirability of better
hospital facilities and services for Maryland citizens, there must be a
recognition that the implementation of such needs must be fiscally
sound. Bond authorizations approved by the 1967 General Assembly
totaled $284,046,700. Most of them were essential to proyide neces-
sary State services. Although this bill involves a comparatively small
part of the total amount, it has some characteristics that distinguish
it from most of the other authorizations.