Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1858-10-28
THE FIRST ANTI-GAMING SOCIETY.
NANJEMoY, Nd, October 1st, 1858

NANJEMoY, Nd, October 1st, 1858.
Mr. WELLS 1t has been recently asserted
that Mr. GREEN, the Reformed Gambler, was
the first who got up and established an Anti
Gaming Society, but [ have in my possession
the proceedings of the first Society of that kind
which I believe was ever formed and it dates
as far back as December, 1888. If there was
any other before that period, have never yet
seen record o4the fact. The Society number
ed seventy weight members, many Of whom are
now living The following is list of the first
officers:
P,csilent-WILLIAM SMITH.
Tice President-JAMEs d. CARPENTER. ..
Secretay-WILLIAM ?. FLOWERS.
Tfeasmer-JoHN T. B. PERRY.
The first meeting was held at the Baptist
Meeting House, in Nanjemoy, and was tempo
to the Chair and a Committee was appointed to
draft a Constitution, composed of the following
gentlemen: :-BENyAMIS A. ADAMS, WM. SMITH,
J. D, CARPENTER. J. i. 3. PERRY and HATCH
ID. Dysox.
Mr.. GGEES deserves great deal of credit for
his efforts in regard to this matter, but Mr.. j.
ID. CARPENTER, in my opinion, was the very first
to start the ball in motion. ''IIonor to whom
honor is due JUSTICE
boro', says:
We are requested to state that AIr. Robert
Bowie, the General Agent of the Commissioners
of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Compa-
ny, has obtained subscriptions to the capital
stock to the amount of $4,000, being the sum
required by the charter to be subscribed prior to
an organization Of the Company. BY notice
in our advertising columns to-day it will there
fore be seen that notice is given to the Commits
sioners of the Road, named in their charter, to
meet at this place ON Wednesday, the Sd proxi-
mo. to receive the official report Of the Agent,
and to take measures for immediate organiza-
ton. We make this announcement with much
pleasure, as we regard the prompt establishment
of the Company itself as of the utmost import
ance to the success of the enterprise. The a.
mount now subscribed has been obtained chiefly
in this county and in Charles, and great credit
is certainly due to the Agent for such quick Sue
cess. We learn from him that the people
throughout the route are warmly favorable to the
project. and assures us that the subscription now
obtained is good for at least threefod its amount,
SO soon as the enterprise shall wear the appear
ance of probable success 1t is also hardly ne
cessary to say that he has been able, as yet to
call upon only small proportion OF those who
have been always ready to take stock, and that
some counties interested have not even yet been
visited-so that the sum now on the books,
though sufficient to organize the Company, is no
index to the total amount which may be secur-
ed by more thorough canvass. We earnestly
hope that there will be full meeting of the
Commissioners on the day suggested, and we
presume they will fix a day for a meeting Of the
Stockholders, for the purpose Of making choice
of President and Directors of the road-a mat
ter of the highest Importance, and which ought
to be canvassed well, as nothing will compen-
safe for the failure to choose judicous and prac-
tical men at the start. 1t will be seen by the
notice of the Agent that there will be shortly a
series of puplic meetings in favor of the road,
for the purpose of having its merits more fully
canvassed than has yet been done.
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