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By DEL. D. FRENCH SLAUGHTER, JR.
MORE THAN 200 bills were introduced in the House of Delegates on Monday, which was the last day for the introduction of bills in the 1972 session.
The bills now introduced cover almost every conceivable subject, including bills to abolish or put the blue law on a local option basis, to require able-bodied welfare recipients to accept jobs that might be offered them, to reduce from 21 to 18 the adult agt for contracts, wiils, deeds, alcoholic beverages, jury services, etc., protection of the wetlands (marsh areas) in the coastal areas, to require the public schools to give instruction in free enterprise, to increase the penalties for the commission of crimes involving dangerous weapons, and many others.
Under the proposed budget, welfare expenditures are to increase 70% over the preceding two years, not including the increases allowed for the state assumption _of most of the local share of welfare payments. Welfare costs have increased several-fold over the past six years, and it is obvious that some means of limiting the increases must be found.
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