The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1854-07-29
Il)e Cecil lubio.
ELKTON, JULY %, 1854.
TAXEs, &C.-A writer in the last demo
craft makes use of the following language:

TAXEs, &C.-A writer in the last Demo
craft makes use Of the following language:
"Thcre is great complaint amongst the land
holders in this neiglborhuod, on account of
the commissioners slapping the tax on So
heavy. and taking the money off the roads
which has lett them in such condition that,
in many places, they are almost impass bile
On you per cent. fanatics, now scratch your
heads and pay your taxes.
] suppose it is all right though, when the
Wing Board of Commissioners spend the
money! Tax payers of Cecil, hunt up them
old accounts that were thrown before YOU last
fall, and see how they will stand with present
accounts,-sec II your taxes arc as light
see If your roads are as good see if your
bridges and public buildings are us good as
they were l,s: falkland, finally, see if your
taxes is not great deal heavier than they
have been for number of years back; com
pare the accounts and see who has spent the
most money, the last or the present Board of
Commissioners.-Now there are many things
they have done that will tell you Of in my
next
Rcm1rAs Presently, as soon as the dupli-
Gates are prepared for the Collectors and the
books fully adjusted, the County Commission,
ers will publish a Statement Of the Re
cciptS and Disbursements" accompanied by a
Report of the state Of the County Finances
generally; then the Taxpayers of the County
will see what has caused The heavy taxes, and
judge for themselves.
The only remark we purpose now to make
is in rcfencc to the roads, about which other
complaints, than the one quoted above, have
been made.
When the last Board IF COMMISSIONS, made
their levy for 1853, they levied for The roads,
payable to the regular Supervisors, and cx-
cll-;se Of extra allowances, the sum Of S.
S2S, which is $3.50 more than ever a Wing
Board levied previously, and 800, mere thar
the same Board levied in 1852 That sum,
50 greatly increased, they made payablc-thp
whole ito the supervisors aopoia. cd by
them for six months, or up to the lst day of
January last, when the supervisors elected by
the people took charge of the roads; and those
supervisors, so appointed by the late locotoco
Commissioners, having been gluttcd with a
whole years allowance, and hundreds Of dol
lars more than had ever before been levied for
u ~tolc gear, expended the whole years al
lowance in their ha!C gear, and left the new
Supervisors pennlcss and the County Trcasu.
ry bankrupt.
And it is under such circumstances that
certain scribcs" and "pharisecs of the To-
cofoco persuasion, are crying at the corners
of the streets against the present Wing Board
Of Commissioners about bad roads.
a few Of the la:c SUI crvsors. it is true, did
not work out their allowances, particularly in
Tie First District, lut taken together they not
only used up the whole years allowance in
halfa year, but they so far overworkcd, (being
as it was the last grab, probably,) that the
present Board of Commissioners had to include
in the levy for this year upwards of d thousand
dollars to pay the balances due them.
BY extra cxe,tion few dollars ha We bce,
raised for three of the present supervisors
what the others have done to the roads they
did by their own private means.
We find no objection to the call made or
the people to look into the cause of the heavy
taxes So they ought to do. The taxes ar,
heavy and those who pay them ought to know
what caused it-and they shall know in du,
time but we shall see to it that "thc saddl,
is put on the right horse"