The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1844-01-06
GOV e IL N d RS
MESSAGE.
CONCLUDED.

full powsr to make the levies and appoint col
lectors, there would be some guaranty Of the
general execution of the tax laws. However
much indisposed portion of the
people might at any time be, to the contribution
Of THOR share of the public taxes, there could
always be found sufficient number in each
county who would willingly consent to receive
an appointment from the State to execute il:
laws, and thus, there would be no difficulty in
! putting the tax system in operation throughout
the entire State And fthose charged with its
execution derived their appointment from the
State, there would be no difficulty in the event
of their failing to perform their duty, in ensuring
their rem oval and appointing others in their
place, who would discharge the duty assigned.
With an anxious desire to remove, to some
extent, the financial embarrassments ofthe State
the Legislature, at its last session, directed a
sale of the interest of Maryland n the several
works Of internal improvement, for the aggregate
sum of 81 100000, payable in its bonds issued
either as loans or for subscription to the capital
stock of said companies. The favor with which
the proposition was originally received by the
Legislature, measure of relief, will in all
proba oility, induce action on the same subject at
this session. The intensity of the desire, which
so naturally exists with patriotic citizens, to re-
move the difficulties which environ the State,
! may, as under circumstances of SINH liar pressure,
prompt, precptate and ncautous legislation,
| which in the end NAV even,uoto in the sar;ons
injury of the very interests if w,s meant To suh-
| serve; and an invocation, therefore, of the most
cam and dispassionate consideration of the Sem
ate and House Of Delegates, of a question ofsuch
vast and momentous import as that of dsposng
of the entire interest in the corporations referred
| to, cannot here be out of place. 10 is question
which should be approached with the utmost
decacv and cir Gu mspection: for IN its satisfac
tory disposition is concerned, perhaps, the pros
periity and rights of the people of MARYLAND for
many wears to come.
The act Of the last session for the sale of the
public works, has proven, contrary to the most
confident expectations of its friends wholly in
capable of achieving the gratifying result, anti
cipated by its authors This very circumstance
il would seem, should admonish the necessity of
greater caution In the framing the details of any
bill, having for its purpose the same object. At
the time Gifts passage, there were inducements
to bond-holders and spectators, to avail them.
selves of its provisions, which will not obtain in
reference to al bill that may be passed this ses-
sion. The bonds of the state we're then at very
low RATE being offered for sale at forty cents in
the dollar. The Treasurer was authorized to
exchange our nterest in the various internal
improvement companies for al. 700 900 of state
| bonds, which could then have been purchased
| for 81. $50 900. of current monsv Az capital
lists have refused tc give that sum for these nnb
lie stocks, there can be no reason to expect that
81, 100 600 of them could now be had for the
whole interest of the state in the same comuan
les when such securities are held at seventv
cents in the dollar with every reason to nntci
pate an increase of their volue if tho authority of
the state be extended throughout its entire Inn
lis, and its revenue laws he enforced upon all
Ifthis amount only of the public debt is tn he
absorbed, in exchange for this vast public proper-
ty, our financial embarrassments would moi he
materially, if at all improved.
The debt of MARYLAND, at the close If ,he Gs-
cal wear, as shown was as sIs657 q. s,le
of its entire interest in the works of ;nier,,i i'm
movement for the sum ~ 100 ooo If hond.
would still Ieoye deht If 90 Iss sS1 q,
Tho doh, ora,tod e., zig v, ,,no e st.. p.i,;
and Ohio and W,shinoton r,iI Gods has ,,avor
hoen , hurJan an ,ho T,oa.,. So Sn e. .a 60 n !,
tbo p,l,;morn ~ oL;o ps:i p u - ~. ~,
No, oniu ~ H. -, 800. ~. na'
na;J ;nio iho rraa,,r, ~ ~ -.
| tha Last ,,oa, 49, -! 49, Do,o -.
ness in monetary Affairs - naid ;n, ,hp ,raasr,,
| the sum of Sas S15 ~ f,r d;v;Jands No., a,naL
and IN ptation lar On nassenrors bosJos M ,,;n,
the interest, mon the bonds issnod h., III St.
for its Use including tho s5oo OOO ;s,v.d er s,,h-
| scr,ption 10 the stock Of The W,sb,nnton Lranch
If the pter6st oftbe s,a,o in ,baso ,,7l La sold
| of course ,he income fron, ,ba P,Ii;,,oro and
| Ohio Rail Road Comnonv ce,s.s II ,,,as .,;,'',-
lated in the act IF tbe last Session thaa r. pa,
held in the Baltimore and Ohio road should he
| dismissed ofat the sum maintained in il tho ann
| of gao OOO annnaIIv sbcnld ho rosorvod ~ tha
state as revenue in lien of the c,n;totion tax on
| the Wasb;nnton branch ia s;,,iI,r nroy;sion
he made in onv hill wIuch NAV he ,don,sd At
this session Of the Legisl,ture than tha state
will lose, annually, sl3 1851 of the sum now