Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1874-03-20
Hon. R. J. Bowie's Chargeto the Grand
jury.


You have been constituted by the oath and
affirmation just administered, The Grand In
quest Of the State Of Maryland in Montgomery
county.
Your title implies the magnitude and i'm
portancc of your trust. There is no exaggera-
lion in the term used TO designate your office.
No legal or moral spectacle is grander than
the assembling of a body of intelligent citi-
zens, diveste6 Of NIL passion and prejudice,
pedging themselves TO inqlre without favor,
fear or affection, whether the laws enacted for
the safety and welfare of the State have been.
faithfully observed and kept
There is Grand Inquest for The State at
arge-the General Assembly-whose duty il
is to make, alter and amend the laws, but your
province is not to inquire whether they nre
wise or unwse, but whether such rs they
arc, they are maintained in their integrity,
by both officers and people.
The great object of the subdivision OF
State into counties and municipalities was the
preservation of public order aud the security Of
person and property. BY bringing the admin
istraion of justice to every mans door, every
citizen is made his neighbours keeper. Every
man is enlisted in The preservation of the pub
lie peace and the safety Of each Individual is
guaranteed by the protection of the whole
Every citizen has a direct material as well as
moral interest, in the honesty The virtue, the
intelligence and exemplary life Of his fellow
citizen; for ii is only in communities, where
honesty, virtue and intelligence prevail, that
life, liberty and property are secure.
AS the character of families is known by the
conduct of lis members. so the character of
counties (which are but aepregations of fami-
liesl Is established nv thc condnct Of its cifi
zens +: and as these are DISTINGUISHED for virtue
or vice. So the county must be elevated or
degraded in the estimation Of men. Ii mnst
be obvious TO The most careless observer that
an endemic Of crime deyeloninq tbe deenest
moral turnitude in the most frichtfnl excuses
mast Honicides consniracies entertainments
robberies. rapes. burriaries. thefts. and frauds
have been so common. that their occurrence
bias ceased 10 excite our special wonder.
Providentially. this comfy has been COM
paratively EXEMPT from the eraver classes Of
these offences. but sseternal Vigilance is the
nrice Of libertr.n and there Il no liberty
r where The Ella laws are violated witb immunity
Moralists are at n loss TO account for the in
crease of crime. Whatever its remote its inn
mediate cause is believed 10 be. relaxation in
tho ADMINISTRATION Of tbe laws oneratno On
social vices tbronob mistaken clemepcy
There Is y General con viction that tbe abuse
If The laws licensing The sale Of spirituous and
ferrnen,ed lionors is one IF the greatest evils
If The times most nroIi6c of noyeriv an5
cr;me and den,andin,e Tho earnest and eternest
%
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in Grand Inries on his sni,;ect
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lave tie Clert. ~ ~, ConnIv i nrobihited
from GRANTING license 10 any nersnn IN sell
sniritnous or fprmentnd lionoys from whom
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d Win reoard TO Ordinary-Keepers. the sale
;. of LIQUOR in quantities less than a pint, is in.
Is tended as an Incidental accommodation to the
traveller or bOarder or guest Whenever an