HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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Supreme Law of the State, I find it untenable for a Maryland
statute to prohibit the State and its agencies from
requesting that the federal government enforce a valid
federal regulation.

For these reasons, I have decided to veto Senate Bill

4.

Sincerely,
Harry Hughes
Governor

Senate Bill No. 22

AN ACT concerning

Baltimore City — Community Development Bond Issue

FOR the purpose of authorizing the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore to create a debt, and to issue and sell its
certificates of indebtedness as evidence thereof, to an
amount not exceeding Four Million Five Hundred Thousand
Dollars ($4,500,000.00), the proceeds derived from the
sale of the certificates of indebtedness to be used for
or in connection with planning, developing, executing,
and making operative the Community Development Program
of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, including,
but not limited to, the acquisition, by purchase,
lease, condemnation or any other legal means, of land
or property, or any right, interest, franchise,
easement or privilege therein, in the City of
Baltimore; the payment of any and all costs and
expenses incurred in connection with or incidental to
the acquisition and management of said land or
property, including any and all rights or interests
therein hereinbefore mentioned; the payment of any and
all costs and expenses incurred for or in connection
with relocating and moving persons or other legal
entities displaced by the acquisition of said land or
property, or any of the rights or interests therein
hereinbefore mentioned; the development, or
redevelopment, including, but not limited to, the
comprehensive renovation or rehabilitation of any land
or property, or any rights or interest therein
hereinbefore mentioned, in the City of Baltimore, and
the disposition of land and property for such purposes;
the elimination of unhealthful, unsanitary or unsafe
conditions, lessening density, eliminating obsolete or
other uses detrimental to the public welfare or
otherwise removing or preventing the spread of blight
or deterioration in the City of Baltimore; the