State of fleo"lgia

93udget 5'1essage and
93udget 9Ji[[ !Recommended to
!lene'lal ~ssembly
e. .9le,,man ';;lalmadge, flove'lno"
lJanua'ly 14, 1949

!Budget ~essage
Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, and members of the General Assembly of Georgia:
It is a pleasure and a privilege to appear before you for the purpose of complying with the requirement of the State Constitution that the Governor shall submit to the General Assembly within 15 days after its organization a budget message together with a draft of a General Appropriation Bill providing funds for the operation of the various Agencies of the State.
As you know, the Constitution of Georgia stipulates that all funds collected from revenue measures shall be paid into the General Fund of the State Treasury and paid out only on appropriations authorized by the General Assembly.
The State Constitution also provides that the appropriation for each Agency shall be a specific amount of money and no appropriation shall be on the basis of the proceeds of any particular tax or fund or a part or percentage of any particular tax or fund.
The income of the State of Georgia available for appropriations reached an unprecedented high of $108,299,000.00 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1948.
Checking the income for the period July 1, 1948 through January 10, 1949 we find that the net income of the State available to apply on appropriations for the period was $46,027,93 l.9 las compared to $46,876,479.21 income for the same period of last year when the income of the State reached the $108,000,000.00 mark. This reflects a decrease of $848,547.30 for the six months and ten days of this new fiscal year.
The trend, as you can see, certainly does not indicate a continued upward trend of State revenue, therefore, in my opinion it would not be to the best interests of the people of Georgia to anticipate more than approximately $108,000,000.00 in making definite fixed appropriations for the ensuing years.
By anticipating $108,000,000.00 income it is recognized that we are assuming a very hazardous position in view of the past years' experiences and are banking on the present economic conditions holding up to the present level.
The State Auditor has previously shown you that the average State income for the four years prior to 1946 was $60,500,000.00 per annum and during these years it fluctuated between $58,000,000.00 and $63,000,000.00.
The only increase in the method of taxation since those years which would tend to increase the State income was the Liquor Warehouse charges which produced $8,000,000.00 in the last fiscal year. Therefore, if this amount is added to the average you would have an average annual income of $68,500,000.00.

The facts and figures indicate that there is $40,000,000.00 of the present State income which is being realized solely by virtue of improved economic conditions in the State and to the general nation-wide inflation.
What future economic conditions will be is purely speculative and we are unable to ascertain whether or not the inflated income will continue. In view of this condition there appears to be only one course of action to follow and that is to predicate a budget on $108,000,000.00 with the full realization that if the funds do not materialize that the appropriations will have to be reduced by budget action so as to fall within the provisions of the Constitution preventing the creation of obligations against the State for which no funds are available.
In order to assure protection to the financial structure of the State and in view of the discussed additional financial support for various functions of the State it is necessary that the budget bill be submitted divided into two sections.
The first section of the bill carries the proposed appropriations with a total of $108,000,000.00 which is in line with the previous year's revenue.
The second section of the bill carries proposed appropriations in line with the items and amounts which have been proposed for expanded services which will require money in excess of the previous year's revenue and cannot be put into force and effect until these additional funds are actually received.
It is absolutely essential that these two sections be kept separate and distinct since any addition to the first section of the bill will completely throw the financial machinery out of gear and cause heavy reductions to be enforced on the items provided for schools, health, welfare, highways and other services of the State, which have been given considerable study and provision made to carry on present operations.
In order to determine what has happened to the $48,000,000.00 increase in State income in the last years I have gone back and picked out a year, 1943, when the State budget was $59,824,000.00, and the closest budget that can be found to the $63,500,000.00 average normal State income. Checking the various items of appropriations then in existence as against the present proposals being submitted to you we find that 901/a of the increased funds have gone to the functions of government which are now said to need additional financial support beyond what is being proposed as being present revenue.
For your information $22,500,000.00 of the increased income is being provided for common school education, $2,600,000.00 for Teacher Retirement funds, $2,976,000.00 for the University System, $5,000,000.00 for Highway purposes, $1,556,000.00 for Department of Public Health, $1,652,000.00 for Tuberculosis Hospital, $3,000,000.00 for rural hospital program, $3,000,000.00 additional for Public Welfare Benefits, and $3,765,000.00 for the operations of the various institutions in-
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eluding an annual $1,000,000.00 building and equipment fund.
It is highly improbable that any of us will want to recommend decreases for these functions of the State which are more to the interest of the welfare of the State than any other items of the State budget.
In the first section of the appropriation bill which is being submitted to you and which I ask that you enact into law, sufficient provision has been made to carry on the present functions of the State government as they now exist with the exception of four items of tremendous importance which we have been able to work out within the present revenue and which should be carried on, in my opinion, for the best interests of the people of Georgia.
For your information I will enumerate these items and ask that you concur in the recommendations.
The present budget for the Department of Education including the institutions under their control is $40,915,000.00. Proposed in the bill that is being submitted to you is $41,500,000.00 for common schools. The increase of approximately $600,000.00 is being provided to supplement regular funds available with the stipulation that until other laws are passed that the bus drivers of the State be given from the common school appropriation a specific increase in salary over that being paid in the 1946-47 school year. The funds are to be paid on the basis of 4c per mile for the route miles traveled each month by school bus drivers.
The second item that we have been able to include in the present budget is $3,000,000.00 each year for rural hospital facilities to match $3,000,000.00 to be received by the State under the Hill-Burton Act of Congress, and $3,000,000.00 local funds. This will inaugurate in this State a $9,000,000.00 a year hospital facility program.
The third, and important change in the budget, that we have been able to incorporate in the present budget is $826,000.00 increase in the State institutions, principally at Milledgeville State Hospital.
Not only will this increase in institution funds provide for adjustments at Milledgeville Hospital which is hoped will cause this institution to render better service, but provision is also made for opening and operating the new buildings at the Training School for Boys, the new buildings at the School for Mental Defectives, and the Training School for Colored Boys at Augusta.
The fourth and last provision that has been made for what I believe to be an absolute necessity in the proper. advancement of the economic development of Georgia is the provision of $775,000.00 for the State Department of Forestry, which together with Federal and local funds will enable this Department to institute a $1,600,000.00 program for the protection and development of the forestry resources of this State. This is an
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increase of $500,000.00 over the present State funds provided and I sincerely hope that you will concur with me in this item.
I have selected the four items for increases within the present revenue not only because of their tremendous need in order to furnish services needed by the people, but also because by the expenditure of $4,926,000.00 in State funds the citizens of the State will receive benefits totalling $12,026,000.00 of Federal, State and local funds.
You will be furnished a complete copy of the proposed budget bill which will give you detailed items of the appropriations proposed for each Agency and which total $108,299,026.03. This is in line with the $108,299,859.94 State income for the last fiscal year.

Summarizing the appropriations which have been proposed
within the present revenue and showing you that 97 % of the
appropriations proposed is provided for eighteen of the main
agencies of the State with 3% being provided for all other
Agencies, I give you the following:

Common School Education

$ 41,500,000.00

Teacher Retirement System University System___ _ Highway Department

2,600,000.00 5,178,000.00 -- 21,251,913.00

Highway-Counties

4,817,013.03

Public Health

Department T. B. Sanatorium Rural Hospitals _ Public Welfare Benefits and County Administration __

2,100,000.00 2,050,000.00 3,000,000.00
7,880,000.00

State Institutions Agricultural Department (including

5,950,000.00

$250,000.00 for Farmers' Market

development)

950,000.00

Conservation

Forestry, Game and Fish, Mines and Geology and Parks _
Corrections Prisons_
Public Safety Department Revenue Department

1,694,000.00
950,000.00 1,750,000.00 1,700,000.00

Legislative Department Judiciary Branch __

500,000.00 538,000.00

Veterans Service Office and Ed. Council_ 700,000.00

All Other Agencies of the State

3,190,100.00

TOTAL_

$108,299,026.03

I most urgently request that you give consideration to the passage of the first section of the budget bill as submitted inasmuch as the amounts have been based on considerable study.

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I would like to assure you that it this portion of the budget
bill is enacted into law as proposed I will assume full responsibility for the successful financial operation of the State within the scope outlined in the first part of the bill and will enforce any economies that are possible during its administration.
It is fully recognized that it is a sovereign right of the General Assembly of Georgia to enact any appropriations in any manner that you see fit and I do not intend to encroach on your prerogatives if anything develops whereby there is not complete satisfaction over the items as proposed. However, I do request that if it is necessary for you to make some changes that you do not allow the changes to raise the total of the bill to an amount in excess of the $108,299,026.03 total now proposed in the budget bill.
As a word of caution to you members of the General Assembly, it is necessary to advise you that in proposing a budget of $108,000,000.00 I have taken the full limit of what we can expect in income and I am taking a chance on the revenue remaining at its present high peak. In taking this high figure I have not taken into consideration a safety reserve which I and the State Auditor consider would be good business in face of unstable conditions.
I ask that you, the members of the General Assembly, resist any effort on anyone's part to increase the total of the first section of this budget bill and I also most emphatically ask that you resist any effort by any State agency to transfer any part of the appropriations proposed in the second section contingent on new revenue to the first section of the bill.
That, lady and gentlemen of the General Assembly of Georgia, finishes the outline of the program to be financed within the present revenue laws.
Let us now talk about the increased financial support which is being discussed for the various functions of the State and which will require that some provision be made to produce the funds to pay.
Necessarily these items of increased financial support will have to be carried in the second section of the appropriation bill and contingent solely on the receipt of additional revenue.
It would be highly improper to provide for these appropriations on a fixed basis since by so doing we would place them on the books of the State as obligations and it is absolutely essential that we avoid this. We have planned that such amounts of the appropriations that can be paid, be made available as the funds become available and only until the funds are available.
I would first like to discuss the items carried in the contingent section of the budget bill proposed to you which are a repetition of the expanded services proposed in the budget message two years ago and which have not as yet been provided for.
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I am tremendously interested in trying to carry on for the benefit of the people of Georgia the services outlined for which I will suggest items of appropriation together with the method of raising sufficient revenue to pay.
The items of additional services which were proposed two years ago which have not been carried out are for the benefit of the people who do not have anyone to fight their battles and are solely dependent on the members of the General Assembly and the State administration to look after their interests. This covers the field of rural roads, rural health services, Tuberculosis Hospital facilities and Public Welfare benefits.
The items of contingent appropriations for these purposes carried in the second section of the appropriation bill are $4,126,000.00 for rural road construction, $900,000.00 for rural health services, $1,500,000.00 for Tuberculosis Hospital to enable the use of 1,000 additional beds and $1,500,000.00 for Public Welfare benefits which will be matched by $3,000,000.00 Federal funds to continue in effect the present program of the Public Welfare Department of placing needy, aged, blind and dependent children on the benefit rolls.
The items total $8,026,000.00 and I believe that you will agree with me that the provision of this amount of money for these specific purposes will be possibly of greater benefit to the masses of the people than any other particular form of service.
If you concur with me on these matters, it is my belief that it would be a very simple matter to raise or adjust some of the present revenue laws, such as le additional Motor Fuel Tax and 2c additional on Cigarette Tax or other similar items, which would produce even in non-inflation times sufficient funds to pay these items, and to be consistent with my campaign pledge to the people of Georgia, I must request that if it is your judgment that this additional financial support should be given to these functions of government that you enact the necessary legislation with a referendum provision thereon so that the people of Georgia by their vote can register their agreement or disagreement.
You may include in this provision the additional $150,000.00 that has been suggested for additional funds for the establishment of farmers' markets and the $250,000.00 that has been suggested as additional aid in connection with forest fire protection, which would run the total items to $8,426,000.00.
The enactment of provisions for money and revenue to pay the items just discussed would round out the program that was advocated by me two years ago and which continues to be highly important to the people to my way of thinking.
Since the above program of expansion was advocated, there has developed in the last two years a program for greater increased financial support to the educational functions of this State and this program has been designated as the Minimum Foundation Program for Education.
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The program as advocated by the educational forces will require $34,123,720.00 in addition to.the amount of funds provided in the first section of the appropriation act. This additional amount is being included in the second section of the appropriation bill and is contingent on raising additional revenue. With this you have a full picture of the situation making it easily ascertainable as to what must or can be done to meet this condition.
These additional funds advocated for education are really divided into three categories: $28,151,720.00 for common school education, $4,822,000.00 for the University System and $1,150,000.00 for the Teacher Retirement System which covers both the common schools and the University System.
During the campaign this past summer I endorsed the principles of a Minimum Foundation Program for Education. When I say Minimum Foundation Program for Education I mean at least minimum foundation of education to be provided for our school children to enable them to meet the turbulent conditions in highly competitive fields and to give them sufficient education to cope with the problems of earning a living.
All the discussion up to now has been on a minimum foundation of salaries for teachers and provisions for bus drivers, scholarships for future teachers and building funds for local schools, more funds for teacher retirement and buildings at the University System.
If the basic program which is submitted for enactment improves the type of education made available to our school children, I believe that the State of Georgia can well afford to give consideration to providing the necessary financial support to such a program.
I have a definite opinion that the educational forces of this State should determine the type of education that is to be made available to our school children and that the cost of teachers' salaries, or bus drivers' salaries should be determined on the basis of the ability of these persons to furnish these educational advantages, and it is hoped that the legislation being proposed for submission to you will take this into consideration.
There is proposed in the Minimum Foundation Program $400,000.00 per year to pay scholarships to students who indicate that they will enter the teaching profession after graduation from college. I am of the definite opinion that there are other phases of education which are more important at this time, and I am also of the opinion that this is not the time to place on the taxpayers this type of additional cost. I recommend that you strike this provision from any law proposed and reduce the appropriations proposed in the second section of the budget bill by $400,000.00.
There is also carried in the Minimum Foundation Program for Education an item of $4,687,200.00 for a building fund for various counties of the State. I know of instances in Georgia
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where the counties have exhausted their local means of furnishing school facilities or where the buildings have burned and insurance carried was insufficient to replace the buildings, but in view of the general conditions of the State and the magnitude of the program being submitted, it is necessary for me to make the following recommendation. I recommend that the $4,687,200.00 for buildings proposed in the second section for buildings be stricken at this time, and that no other provision of law with reference to same be enacted at this time.
The matter of additional funds in the amount of $1,150,000.00 for the Teacher Retirement System is predicated entirely on the amount of salaries paid the teachers and this increase necessarily follows along with whatever action the General Assembly takes with reference to providing additional funds for teachers' salaries.
There is in the second section of the bill which is contingent on additional revenue $4,822,000.00 for a building and equipment fund for the various University Branches and which is submitted to you as part of the Educational Foundation Program which has been advocated.
I recommend that this proposed amount be reduced by $2,322,000.00 leaving $2,500,000.00 as the annual amount that is to be provided for University System buildings and equipment. It is my opinion that if this reduced amount is made available and consistently used for purposes provided over a period of years, the University System officials can ultimately reach their goal in necessary facilities.
I ask that you members of the General Assembly also make a survey for the purpose of determining items of the Minimum Foundation Program are absolutely essential at this time, keeping in mind that there is no reason for our State not being on a parity with other surrounding States. In making this statement, I recognize that all of the proposals which are being proposed would be highly desirable if they could be financed.
If in your opinion none of the recommendations that I have made for reductions in the proposals can be put into effect, then it will be necessary for provision to be made to submit to the people of Georgia the question of approving additional tax in the amount of $34,123,720.00 each year to provide the additional funds required for the Educational Program and $8,426,000.00 to finance the other needed services along the lines of rural roads, health and welfare services, making a total of $42,549,720.00 to be financed.
If in your opinion the recommendations that I have made for reductions in the proposals can be put into effect, then it will be necessary for provision to be made to submit to the people of Georgia the question of approving additional tax in the amount of approximately $26,714,520.00 each year to provide the additional funds required for the educational program and $8,426,000.00 to finance the other needed services along the lines of rural roads, health and welfare services, making a total of $35,-
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140,520.00 to be financed if the programs are to be put into effect.
In the pre-legislative conferences you were given information showing that if the entire program of education, together with the other items of expanded services were to be financed, it would not be possible to do so except through three means: ( l) by the changing of the present revenue laws, (2) the enactment of a complete new revenue law, or ( 3) the enactment of partial changes in the present revenue laws and new revenue law as a combination.
1 can see no need of drawing various and sundry tax legislation until it is determined what course of action the General Assembly wishes to follow in determining the question, therefore, I recommend that the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives together with the Secretary of the Tax Revision Committee and such other public officials as are desirable, make a study of this question and determine what course of action is to be followed in submitting the tax revision or proposed tax revision to the people of Georgia for their approval, or rejection.
This is to assure the members of the General Assembly that I will wholeheartedly join in with you in such legislation as you deem necessary for the purpose of submitting the question of financing these programs to the people for their decision.
This, lady and gentlemen of the General Assembly, is the situation as I find it and the recommendations that I have made are given you in a sincere effort to establish a program for the benefit of the people of Georgia and I wish to assure you that I will cooperate with you in every way possible to the best interests of all concerned.
HERMAN E. TALMADGE, Governor
January 14, 1949
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!lene'laf Jlpp'lop'liation 93ilf

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN AcT to make appropriations for the operation of the State Government, for the support of its eleemosynary institutions, for aid to the University System and to the Common Schools of the State, for aid to the counties for roads and for all other Governmental activities authorized by law for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1950 and for each and every fiscal year thereafter until repealed by law; to provide appropriations for the period January 1, 1949 to June 30, 1949; to provide for the control and administration of the funds, to provide for the qualifications of a public officer before the funds appropriated herein are available; and to repeal conflicting laws.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA, AND IT IS HEREBY ENACTED BY AUTHORITY OF SAME, THAT THE SUMS OF MONEY HEREINAFTER SET OUT ARE APPROPRIATED FOR EACH FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JULY 1, 1949 AND FOR EACH AND EVERY FISCAL YEAR THEREAFTER UNTIL REPEALED OR MODIFIED BY LAW.

LEGISLATIVE

SECTION I-Legislative Department_

--- _ . $

For compensation as fixed by law and for mileage at the rate of 10c per mile for roundtrip for regular sessions and any and all extraordinary sessions of the General Assembly, of the President and Members of the Senate and of the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives; for the compensation of the Secretary of the Senate, of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, as fixed by law, of the messengers and door-keepers and other attaches of the Senate and House of Representatives, for the actual travel expense of Members of Legislative Committees; for cost of operating the office of Lieutenant Governor authorized by law; for membership in council of State Governments; for supplies, repairs, printing and other incidental expenses and equipment for the General Assembly; for publishing and distributing the Acts and Journals of the General Assembly, the Codes of Georgia and the annual report of State Auditor; and for election blanks and any other election expense, including publishing Constitutional Amendments.

500,000.00

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JUDICIARY

SECTION 2-For the cost of operating the

Supreme CourL__ . _ ____________

__$

SECTION 3-For the cost of operating the

Court of Appeals

__________ _ _____ $

SECTION 4-For the cost of operating the

Superior Courts __

$

SECTION 5-For the cost of printing and dis-

tributing the reports of the Supreme Court

and Court of Appeals __

_ _$

SECTION 6-For the cost of operating the

Judicial Council ___ ___ __ _____ ___ ______ __

_ _ $

115,000.00 103,000.00 300,000.00
15,000.00 5,000.00

EDUCATION

SECTION 7-For grants for aid to the Common

Schools; for matching Vocational Education

and Vocational Rehabilitation funds in co-

operation with the Federal Government; for

operations of Vocational Trade Schools; for

operations of Public and Rural Library pro-

grams; for operations of School for Deaf and

Academy for the Blind; for grants for aid to

the Common Schools under the provisions of

law; for free text books for the children at-

tending Common Schools; for the salaries of

County School Superintendents; for the oper-

ating cost of the Department; and for any and

all other expenses by law payable from the

Common School Fund __

_.. $41,500,000.00

Provided, that the State Board of Education shall establish the necessary rules and regulations so that the necessary amount of the funds distributed to school systems for administrative purposes from the funds hereby appropriated shall be used specifically for additional compensation of bus drivers and said funds shall be distributed monthly during a school term to the County School Systems on the basis of four cents per mile for the total route miles traveled each month by school bus for school purposes as reported to the State Department of Education for the school year 1946-1947.

Provided, further each bus driver shall receive additional compensation above the amount of compensation in force and effect for the school year 1946-1947, on the basis of four cents per mile for the total route miles

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traveled each month driving a school bus, during a school tem1 for school purposes, based on mileage reported as above stated.

Provided, further that this authorization and direction shall remain in force and effect until the passage and approval of an act of the General Assembly authorizing the State Board of Education to establish other rules and regulations governing the operation of school buses.

Provided, that the State Board of Education shall within the first thirty days of each fiscal period make an apportionment of this appropriation together with other funds available to the various activities of the Department of Education and immediately report same to the State Budget Authorities for approval. After said apportionment is approved, any and all obligations or commitments made which are in excess of the funds apportioned, shall be null and void and all expenditures shall be governed by the laws and budget regulations of general application which are or may be in force and effect.

SECTION 8-(a) For the cost of operating the

State Board of Regents; for aid to the Univer-

sity System; for annual payment of $8,000.00

to the University of Georgia for old bank stock

item; for experimental purposes; and for cost

of operating the State Soil Conservation Com-

mittee

$ 5,178,000.00

Provided, that the above appropriations shall be in addition to the funds realized by the respective units in each fiscal year from Federal Government, donations, gifts, earning from fees, rents, sales and any and all other sources of income.

Provided, that the State Board of Regents shall within the first thirty days of each fiscal period make an apportionment of all funds available, including athletic funds and the above appropriations to the various units of the University System and immediately report same to the State Budget Authorities for approval. After said apportionment is approved by the State Budget Bureau, any and all obligations or commitments made, which are not approved on budget or which are in excess of the funds apportioned inclusive of the unit's other income, shall be null and void, and all expenditures or obligations authorized by the

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State Board of Regents and any agency thereof regardless of the source of funds therefor shall be governed by the Constitution of Georgia and laws, budget regulations of general application which are authorized by the General Assembly.
SECTION 9-For the State's contribution to the Tea':h~r R~tirement Fund, including cost of admm1stration ______________________________________ $ 2,600,000.00

SECTION 10-(a) For the cost of operating the Highway Department, including the Planning Survey ____________________________________________ $ 950,000.00

(b) For the cost of regular and heavy

maintenance of roads, including all cost items

incident thereto _

__ _____ $ 5,000,000.00

(c) For State-matching participation in cost

of construction, reconstruction and improve-

ment in highways in cooperation with Federal

Government including all cost items incident

thereto and for no other purpose___

_ _$10,301,913.00

Provided, that the amount of funds available for secondary roads, including post roads and school bus route, construction shall contiime to be subject to the procedure authorized by Resolution of the General Assembly, approved January 28, 1946, set out under "Highway Department, subsection B, page 788, Acts 1946," which is hereby declared to be in force and effect.

(d) For 100% State Road construction, provided, all expenditures for County contracts shall be on the basis of uniform prices established by the Highway Board and applicable to all County contracts; the cost of emergency maintenance and construction caused by floods, freezes, etc.; for convict camp operations; compensation claims and surveys ___ ____ ___________________________________ $ 5,000,000.00

Provided, further, that any and all obligations and commitments made by the officials of the State Highway Department, after the enactment of this law, which have not been authorized by a specific budget allotment for which funds are available shall be null and void, and all expenditures shall be governed by laws and budget regulations of general application which are or may be in force and effect.

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SECTION 11-For grants to Counties for aid in

County road construction and maintenance as

provided by law authorizing the State Treas-

ury to make such grants_.

___ $ 4,817,013.03

HEALTH. PUBLIC WELFARE AND PENSIONS

SECTION 12-For the cost of operating the State

Prison Institution System _

_______ $ 950,000.00

SECTION 13-(a) For the cost of operating the Department of Public Health, and grants to Counties for Public Health Programs_ _ . _$ 2,100,000.00

(b) For aid to local governmental subdivisions in establishing, constructing and equipping hospital facilities to be administered and expended in the same manner as other public health funds and in accordance with the provisions of the "Hill-Burton" Act of the United States Congress and rules and regulations of the State Board of Public Health. The basis of the expenditures of this appropriation shall be one-third participation in the cost, of which one-third is to be borne by the U.S. Government and one-third by the local governmental subdivision____________________ $ 3,000,000.00

SECTION 14-For the cost of operating the De-

partment of Public Health - Tuberculosis

Sanatorium ____

$ 2,050,000.00

SECTION 15-For the cost of operating the State Department of Public Welfare___ ______ _ ____$ 255,000.00

SECTION 16-For grants to Counties for aid in

administering of County Public Welfare De-

partments _

____ _ _ $ 680,000.00

SECTION 17-For matching Federal Funds for Benefits to Old Age, Blind and Dependent Children and Crippled Children Services. ___ $ 7,200,000.00

SECTION 18-For the pension to Confederate

Soldiers and widows ---------

__ $ 425,000.00

SECTION 19-(a) For the support, maintenance
and equipment of the State Institutions under
the management of the State Department of Public Welfare ________ -- __________________ $ 4,930,000.00

Provided, that of the above appropriation, the sum of $300,000.00 shall be used in adjusting upward the lower brackets of annual compensation of employees of the Milledgeville State Hospital. This proviso shall apply to the compensation rates in force and effect January 1, 1949.

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(b) For buildings and equipment of Insti-

tutions

____ _______ __ ___ ________ ___ __ _ $ 1,000,000.00

ALL OTHER AGENCIES

SECTION 20-Agricultural and Industrial Devel?I?1'.1ent Board, for the cost of operating all act1V1ttes _______ _____ ___ __ __ _ ____________________$ 80,000.00

SECTION 21-Agriculture, Department of

(a) For the cost of operating all activities

of the Department, Farmers Markets, Bangs

Disease indemnities__ ___ _ _ ___

$

(b) For development of Farmers Markets $

SECTION 22-Audits, Department of
For the cost of operating all activities of the Department, County School auditing and Budget Division ___ ___ _________ ___ ___ ________________$

700,000.00 250,000.00
95,000.00

SECTION 23-Banking, Department of For the cost of operating all activities of
the Department ________________________________________ $

96,000.00

SECTION 24-Capitol Square Improvement Committee
For aid in cost of operating the new State Office Building______ _______ _____________ ______ ____ _ $

60,000.00

SECTION 25-Citizens Council, Georgia

For the cost of operating

___ $

SECTION 26-Comptroller General

For cost of operating the office of Comp-

troller General, Insurance Commissioner, Fire

Inspection Division, Building Safety Council

and Insurance Rate Division _ __

__ $

SECTION 27-Confederate Pensions and Records For the cost of operating the Department __ $

60,000.00
220,000.00 10,000.00

SECTION 28-Conservation
(a) For the cost of operating Department of Forestry, including a $10,000.00 annual allotment to Herty Foundation _______________ $

775,000.00

(b) For cost of operating Game and Fish Commission__________ _____________________________ $ 475,000.00

(c) For cost of operating Department of Mines, Mining and Geology __ ___ __ ___ ___ $ 70,000.00

(d) For cost of operating Oil and Gas Commission _________________________________________ $

6,000.00

(e) For cost of operating Department of

Parks __

___________________________________________ $ 268,000.00

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(f) For development Veterans Memorial Park-Lake Blackshear___ ________________________ $ 100,000.00

SECTION 29-Corrections, State Board of For cost of operating ___ -------- ___________ $ 85,000.00

SECTION 30-Entomology, Department of

For the cost of operating the Department

of Entomology, including emergency disease

and insect eradication

_____ $

118,000.00

SECTION 31-Executive Department
(a) For cost of operating the Executive Department, including cost and maintenance expense of Executive automobile and telephone at Mansion ______________________________________ $

100,000.00

(b) For allowance payable monthly for cost
of operating the Mansion, including servants hire, food, other supplies and laundry___ ____ $

7,500.00

Provided, that the accounts to furnish the necessary heat, light, power, water, repairs, furnishings and equipment shall be paid by the Public Buildings and Grounds Funds.

(c) For a Contingent Fund of the Executive Department for other costs of operating, namely, rewards, dues, Governors' Conference and Special Committee Expenses _______ $

5,000.00

SECTION 32-Labor, Department of

(a) For the cost of operating the Commis-

sioner's Office and Factory Inspection Divi-

sion __

_______ ___ ___ ___ ___ _____ ____ $

70,000.00

(b) For that part cost of operations of the

Employment Security Agency as authorized

by Act approved March 8, 1943

__ $

65,000.00

SECTION 33-Law, Department of

For the cost of operating the Department

of Law__ __ _ ______ _ _________ _ _

_ $ 140,000.00

Provided, that the compensation of all Assistant Attorneys-General, Deputy Assistant Attorneys-General, all law clerks and stenographic help necessary to carry on the legal duties of the State required of Department of Law or any other agency of the State in the Executive branch of the State Government, shall be paid from this fund. No other agency is authorized to expend the funds appropriated or otherwise available from any source for the support and maintenance of the respective

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agency for the purpose for which provision is made in this item unless the payment is made 100% from Federal Funds.

SECTION 34-Library, State
For the cost of operating the State Library and the purchase of new books and publications ________ _____ _ _____ _______ ________________ $

16,000.00

SECTION 35-( a) Military Department For the cost of operating the Military De-
partment and aid to Military Organizations _$
SECTION 36-Milk Control Board For the cost of operating the Milk Control
Board ______ _ _____________________________________________$

220,000.00 57,000.00

SECTION 37-Naval Stores Supervising Inspector

For compensation, provided the fees shall

be remitted to the State Treasury_

$

3,600.00

SECTION 38-Pardons and Paroles, State

Board of

For the cost of operating Board _

$ 120,000.00

SECTION 39-Pharmacy Board

For the cost of operating the Office of

Chief Drug Inspector __

$

24,000.00

SECTION 40-(a) Public Buildings and Grounds

For cost of operating the State Capitol

Buildings and Grounds; the maintenance of

Confederate Cemeteries; the repairs, furnish-

ings, equipment, heat, light, power, water and

upkeep of Grounds at the Mansion and for

Insurance on Public Property not otherwise

provided for__

___ ___ _ ___ _$

Provided, that the State Agency having in charge any State property shall pay the premium of insurance on such property.

95,000.00

(b) Special Repairs Capitol Building and

Mansion

___ _______ ___ ____ $ 35,000.00

SECTION 41-Public Safety, Department of

For the cost of operating the Department

of Public Safety _

_ _____ $ 1,750,000.00

SECTION 42-Public Service Commission

For cost of operating the Utilities Division

and the Motor Carriers Division of the Public

Service Commission ___

. _________ $

175,000.00

SECTION 43-Revenue, Department of
For the cost of operating the Department of Revenue, including Liquor warehouses,

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provided, that the liquor warehouse charges shall be maintained and that same shall be immediately imbursed into the State Treasury ______________ _____ ____ __________ ________________________$ 1,700,000.00

Provided, further, that in addition to the above appropriation, there is hereby appropriated from every source of income a sufficient sum to make refunds of collections made in error and Farmer Gasoline Tax refunds, and any other refunds specifically authorized by law.

SECTION 44-Secretary of State
(a) For the cost of operating the Office of Secretary of State; Corporation Division; Building and Loan Division; Securities Division and Joint Secretary's Office____________________ $

110,000.00

(b) For cost of operating Archives and History Division __ ____ _______ ____________ _____ $ 18,000.00

(c) For cost of operating the several Ex-

amining Boards __

__ ______ _ ______ $ 95,000.00

Provided, that $65,000.00 of the funds appropriated in this item shall be apportioned to each board in exact ratio of the revenue collections of each board and $30,000.00 shall be available to meet emergencies in the expenses of the Boards in discretion of the Secretary of State and Budget Authorities.

SECTION 45-State Ports Authority For cost of operating_ _ _ _ __ _____$ 40,000.00

SECTION 46-Supervisor of Purchases

For cost of operating the office of Super-

visor of Purchases

____$ 100,000.00

SECTION 47-Treasury, State For cost of operating the State Treasury $ 50,000.00

Provided, that from this item an amount not in excess of $20,000.00 may be expended to meet the cost of operating the Housing Act.

SECTION 48-Treasury Land Title Fund
There is hereby in trust for this fund the actual amount of receipts as required by law.

SECTION 49-Vetcrans Service Office

For cost of operating __

$

SECTION SO-Veterans Educational Council

For cost of operating

$

550,000.00 150,000.00

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SEC rroN 51-Workmens Compensation, State

Board of

For cost of operating _

_____ $

160,000.00

SECTION 52-Immediately upon the passage of this Act, the State Budget Authorities are authorized and directed, in the administration of the State Budget for the remaining months of this fiscal year ending June 30, 1949, to govern the approval of the budgets on a basis of a pro rata part of the appropriations provided herein. The appropriations made in this Act and all other provisions pertaining thereto shall become of full force and effect at the beginning of the fiscal year, July 1, 1949.

SECTION 53-All appropriations and expenditures authorized by this Act shall be subject to provisions of Article VII, Section IX, Paragraph II of the Constitution of Georgia, which continues in force and effect Sections 55, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63 and 33 of Appropriation Act, approved January 29, 1943, same being laws of general application to all appropriations made by the General Assembly.

SECTION 54-In the event the revenue available in any fiscal year for which appropriations are provided in the above Sections of this Act, shall be less than the amount necessary to pay the above appropriations in full, the amounts of the appropriations in excess of the Budget allotments for fiscal year 1941-42 shall be reduced pro rata by the State Budget Authorities and said reduction shall first be applied pro rata to any appropriation enacted in the above Sections which are in excess of the appropriations recommended in the Appropriation Bill introduced in the House of Representatives. The amounts so reduced under provisions of this Section, shall cease to be an obligation of the State.

TOTAL REGULAR APPROPRIATIONS-

EACH FISCAL YEAR

___ $108,299,026.03

SECTION 55-Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia and it is hereby enacted by the authority of same, that in the event the income of the State in any periods for which appropriations are made in this Act, exceeds the amount needed to pay the appropriations and allotments authorized by the foregoing sections of this Act, the Budget Authorities are authorized and directed to

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make available the following contingent appropriations for each fiscal year in the amounts and for purposes authorized. If there is not sufficient funds as provided to pay the following contingent appropriations in full, the Budget Authorities are authorized and directed to make available such part of the contingent appropriations as can be paid from the excess income of the State for any of the periods for which appropriations are made in this Act. The State Treasurer and the Comptroller General are authorized and directed to set up the contingent appropriations in full or in part upon receiving authorization from the Budget Authorities and same shall be in addition to the appropriations or allotments authorized by the foregoing sections.
EDUCATION
(a) For grants for aid to the Common Schools; for matching Vocational Education and Vocational Rehabilitation funds in cooperation with the Federal Government; for operations of Vocational Trade Schools; for operations of Public and Rural Library programs, for operations of School for Deaf and Academy for the Blind; for grants for aid to the Common Schools under the provisions of law; for free text books for the children attending Common Schools; for the salaries of County School Superintendents; for the operating cost of the Department; for any and all other expenses by law payable from the Common School Fund and for pupil transportation under rules and regulations established by the State Board of Education under authority of law______________________________________________________$23,464,520.00
Provided, that the State Board of Education shall within the first thirty days of each fiscal year make an apportionment of this appropriation together with -other funds available to the various activities of the Department of Education and immediately report same to the State Budget Authorities for approval. After said apportionment is approved, any and all obligations or commitments made which are in excess of the funds apportioned shall be null and void and all expenditures shall be governed by the laws and budget regulations of general application which are or may be in force and effect.
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(b) For Grants to Counties for Common School Building Equalization Fund under rules and regulations established by the State Board of Education and approved by State Budget Authorities _____________________________________ $ 4,687,200.00
(c) For improvement fund of the University Branches including necessary building and equipment under the same rules and regulations as the Regular Appropriation Act made by this Act_______________ _____ ____ ______ ________$ 4,822,000.00
(d) For additional State's contribution to the Teacher Retirement Fund ___________________ $ 1,150,000.00

HIGHWAYS
(e) For the State cost of construction of Rural, Post Roads, School Bus routes and farm-to-market roads in each fiscal year for which no Federal funds are available___ __ __ $ 4,126,000.00

HEALTH, PUBLIC WELFARE

(f) For the additional cost of operating

Department of Public Health Tuberculosis Sanatorium ______

-- _-- ______$ 900,000.00 ----------- __$ 1,500,000.00

(g) For Public Welfare Benefits authorized by law, Crippled Children services and for necessary additional Administrative expense_ $ 1,500,000.00

(h) For additional funds for land, construc-
tion and equipment in expanding Farmers' Market facilities _________________________________________$ 150,000.00

(i) For additional cost of operating the Department of Forestry incident to expanding the facilities for conservation of Forest Areas _$ 250,000.00

TOTAL CONTINGENT APPROPRIATIONSEACH FISCAL YEAR _ ------------ _______________ $42,549,720.00

SECTION 56-All laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.