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bringing the project to completion.'" The most conspicuous example of
this was the public turnpikes of Baltimore County which were
relinquished to private companies to improve. However, even then, the
state continued to aid these private projects by one or all of many
Methods: corporate privileges, loans, tax exemptions, permission to
conduct lotteries, and, later, direct monetary participation in such
corporations.
(Continued in September)
'g$ Milton S. Heath, Constructive Liberalism; The Role of the State in Eco,
nomic Development
in Georgia to 1860 (Cambridge, Mass., 1954) , p. 301, for similar practice
in Georgia.
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