The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-12-03
Hartford County Railroad,

The general Executive Committee met on
Thursday, I'd December, at the Court House
in Bel Air, at 2 o'clock, p. M. Col. r. Nc
Henry in the chair.
VIM Young, Esq, agent of the committee
to canvass for subscriptions, reported that he
had subscriptions to the amount of $4O5OO,
and that he had met with such reception as
warranted him to say that the people were
much interested in the work and would sub
scribe to the extent of their means.
Mr.. II. Il. Bovine reported subscriptions,
through himself, Jas. o. Amos, Caleb ].
Moore and VIM. II. Waters, to the amount
Of 81 900. He also stated that $4,000 more
had been promised that had not been sub
scribed. Many of these, Mr.. Bovine repor-
ted as propably conditional on the road being
located so as to run by or near Archer, How
ard & Co.'S Mill, on the Bel Air turnpike.
Mr.. Young, Chairman Of Committee on
Survey, reported that he had correspon-
dcd with one of the officers of the Phila.,
vii. & Bait. Railroad, and the Commit
tee on Conference would meet the officers
of that road on Saturday next, ard if they
would furnish an engineer they would
proceed at once-otherwise they would
procure the services of some other compe-
tent surveyor, and 60 to work at once.
MIR. Munnikhuysen reported an addition
al subscription of $780, snd also Mr.. Young
an additional one Of $500.
ReSoloed, That the chair appoint COM
| mittee OF three to solicit cash subscriptions
to detray the preliminary expenses of the
road. The chair appointed Isaac Amos,
| VIM. Herman and Edwin l.. Sawyer
On motion three additional names were
| added to the last named committee, viz ::
| Caleb j. Moore, Patrick Howard and John
| b. Roe.
The chair stated that the prospects of
| the road were very flattcring indeed, and
that from the amount actually subscribed,
and from the expressed disposition of
Others who had not yet done so, he thought
an amount of 100000 could be obtained
here.
The following compose the full Execu-
tive Committee, as added to by the Chair
man:
General Ececutice -Messrs.
II. w. Archer Henry d. Farnandis, Her.
man Stump, Jr, Isaac Amos, VIM. F. Han
ma, VIM. Herman, Geo. Y. Maynadier, Jas
d. Waters, VIM. Fl. Dallam, Howard
Munnikhuysen, Michael e. Pue, G. Smith
Norris, Mansel E. Morrison, John Hol-
| lingsworth, VIM. Sawyer, Caleb J. Moore,
| ". oohil ltoSCiS, ooht MooIcSJ w ILL., IL.
Waters, John G. Walsh, Richard F. Gar
rettson, James o. Amos, j. M. Maynadier,
DIR. John G. Polk, William F. Pannell
John Price, Walter Harvard, Thos. w.
Hall, JOS A. Price, DR.. Joshua Wilson,
Lee A. Magness, Patrick Howard, A. H..
Greenfield, DR.. E. H. Richardson, DR.. r.
D. Lee, Edwin L. Sawyer, e. Stanley Ro-
gers, Robert I. BOVINE, Ralph G.. Lee, VIM.
Warner, Jas. Kean, p. Hall Lee, Jr., VIM.
Oldfeld, Clement DIETRICH, j. Hood, John
B. Roe, DR.. Jas. M. Magraw, A. T. Patter
son, Chas. w. Norris, James Heron, James
Warden, Thomas H. Magness, VIM. H.
Michael, Adams 6 Moulton, Hiram Hos
kins, Dare, Hull & Dixon, Weeden &
johnson, A. G. Griffith, M. j. 6 w. Brown,
j. Alexander Shriver, w. b. Norris.
Adjourned until next Thursday to meet
at the same place.
r. McHENRY, President
GEO. Y. MAYNADIER, Sec'y.