The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1853-10-27

Democrat as data; ii The interest of
Sl2, 1856, amounts in the same manner
! of accumulation to SO, 1866, the interest
on SlS,55l amounts 10 $5,276, which
being added to the principal makes
($23,s2D; t~cnty three thousand eight
humdred and t~enfy-seren doNnrs. This
is the amount, or within a very few dol
lars Of the amount, Gas we can prove by
statements of the present clerk to the
commissioners due by. the Railroad
company at the end OF the year 1892,
Tor taxes levied on them by the Com
missionels of Cecil county according to
law and which they were bound to pay,
by the old law and particularly by the
4 Bridge Bill act.
Now taxpayers as the statements
called for have been refused to us and to
; YOU, we leave "reports" and 90 to facts.
Take $l2, 900 from $23,S27 and YOU
have left 5 1897, as the amount of
money sacrificed, and when you add to
that the $4,000, given to counsel (lor
$500 was paid in the start.) you have
the enormous sum $ 10, l27 of taxes levi
ed by law, utterly lost and worse than
wasted. For these assertions, we appeal
to the books Of the commissioners and TO
statements made by their clerk. And
yet, when we call public attention to
these things, or even ask statement
Tor the public eye. we are set upon by a
! pack of paid scoundrrIs, and the attempt
made to turn down and silence us. See
you to it citizens See YOU to it, when
this election is over, and we are no long
er liable 10 the charge Of interested mo-
tivcs.
The railroad not bound to pay!-,this
Isl new song in that quarter. And as
So much /cgn/ learning has been blought
forth by those writers we state on the
authority of a former counsel in the
case, that the court Of Appeals decided
there was nothing wrong, except 'an
old mare and Il pile Of wood' in the
original assessment, and that the other
part OF the assessment was legal. Nor
is 1t true that efforts to enforce payment
had ceased-the wings pursued the suits
Tor the whole sums due; the counsel "m-
ployed by them having been elected to
office, went out OF the case, and the pres
ent Board employed John Cooley Esl.
TO follow it up. How he was ou>trd TO
make way for another is quite publicly
i known. And ii this ruuous compr0.
mise had TO, been made, the wnolc sum
would lure been coIIectad, except on the
OLD mare and wood, which we believe
~, , h.,
We proceed to notice the subjr of
State Taxes as referred to by this
Jastice" and by another writer, "Tin-
der"--for the whole nest of them, alaln-
ed lest they lose their prey, have pounc-
ed down on Us; but we have the feathers
flying and we shall pluck them bare.
/ This "IMder" comes to the rescue, al
though he knew we were "henea'h the
notice OF any respectable man." oh! oh!
1T seems, however we haze notice
enough, on this occasion, from some hiMd
of men. TIE attempt is made to separ-
ale the collection Of the state from the
county taxes; but in every case where
proceedings are instituted BY the order
Of the commiSsi onerS, it is for both coun-
ty and state taxi such is the course de-
handed by law and uniformly pursued,
and the suit against the railroad was for
the whole taxes. That the commission
ers allowed the collectors to place the
railroad taXes-both county and state
! in their lists of insolvencies is most true;
but they d,d it because they had under
ok fr hnl e.
selves bound to pay when the suit was
terminated, and the money recovered; and
by this time, the county and state ought
TO have had the full amounts due.
But to silence at once what has been
said about "l'roceedings in the Circuit
court of Baltimore" and about the re-
turns of "lnsolvencirs, we ask the at
tentlon of those legal asses, ".Justice"
and 'Nlndex," to the following section
of The Bridge Act:
''Sec. Is. And be it enacted, That the said
company before they shall be entitled 10 any of
the benefits, privileges or advantages conferred
by this act, shall pay TO The county Commissioners
OF Hartford and Cecil counties, TIN ough which
the road oil the said company passes, or to their
proper officer or officers, atoract or attornies;
me HhCic oil the state anu county taxes, which
they arc os may be legally bound TO pay, and
VIII ich is due from and unpaid by said company
in said county,
"pinder' says the Commissioners had
no power to give away or collect the
state taxes in question, they having been
returned "iHsoIvent." No power to
g're array, certainly, but always to col
lect. Suppose the return of :'lnsolven-
cles" had taken the original power from
them, but il did not why, the law We
quote gives them neac and eIprcss pow
er. "Jnstice" says, the business is out
OF the hands of the commissioners, be-
cause the State has entered Proceedings
in the Baltimore circuit court Such
proceedings cannot have been entered
since the passage Of that law because
they would be a violation of the law.
Were they instituted before! if so, the