The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1876-04-22

reads as follows;
"Be 1t enGetedy That it shall be the duty Of
the several coll sctors OF taxes TO pay over, un-
der oath to the Treasurer OF the State OF Mary
land and the Treasurer OF Baltimore county.
respectively, on. the first Tuesday OF the next
month after said taxes are placed ia tuelr
hands for collie ction, and on the first Tuesday
In each and every month thereafter, the
amount collected by them, until the c"llec
tions are completed . = > = . and on failure
to complete, s0ithin t.oelUe months from tie
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lection, the collection and return of the whole
amount thereof to the County and State Treas
urer respectively, except such sums as the
County commissioners, upon examination Of
the returns OF said collectors, may determine
to be aud to have been uncollects be, their
bonds shall be liable for the same, and the
County Commissioners shall cause suit to be
brought oa the bonds giUea for the county tares,
and the State Treasurer may cause suit to be
brought on the bonds giUes for State tazeS, to the
merit term Of the Circuit Court thereafter"
The report OF the late Grand Jury censures
the County Commissioners for causing suits to
be brought on the bonds of defaulting tax col
lectors, and especially, for causing suits to be
brought on the bond of defaulter OF the 9th
district, after Receiver had been appoint
ed to collect the uncollected taxes The
law wisely provides that suits shall be.
brought on the bonds of all defaulters, wlthsuls
regard TO whether a Receiver has been 40
pointed or not. We would not deem 1t eur
duty to notice this report were it not for ihe
fact that its statements with reference to our
selves, as counsel to the Beard of County Com
saissioners, are incorrect and manifesIly in
tended to place us in a false position.
1t is not true that the Counsel for the Com
mssioners claim ten per cent on the
amount sued for, and placed in the hands Of
Receivers for collection in the 9Th district. The,
Counsel TO the Commissioners are not paid in.
this way. Their fees in the suits broug ID; and
10 be brought against this defauter in THIS
| district and his bondsmen will certainly not sx.
coed two hundred dollars. This Grand Iurv
states that our fees in these cases against this
deiaulter alone will amount to 81 10000 which.
they deem unjust and without precedent
| This would be so, il true, but the statement is
not true, and in this particular is unjust and
without precedent" IN point of misre Prssenta--
ton.
The Collectors or Receivers collect the taxes,
and pay them over to the Treasurer after suit
is brought, as well as before. This is The case.
even after judgment is obtained, when time is
given. which is invariably done IN cases where,
the taxes have not been collected, and there is
| reasonable effort being made 10 collect them.
There are tax collectors against whom iudg
ments. have been obtained, who can Ger
tify to this fact. They have been pew
mitted TO go on with the collections and pay
over she money to the Treasurer. We do rot
propose to Cypress any one unnecessarily, bnd
will promptly secure the taxes in arrears by
judgments as required by law, and require them
to be paid into the Treasury in reasonable zine.
Counsel to the Commissioners are paid for their
services, and their fees are not regulated by
the Commissions on the amount sued for, re.
covered or collected. These are matters which.
the Grand Jury knew but little nothing.
about, and were evidently mislea by some one.
who had but little regard for tae truth.
John l. Yellott, of the editors of tAe'
Herald, in the last issue Of his paper, has the
following: "Why were these suits brooght
The answer presents ITSELF at once IN This toFm,
in order that the Counsel to the ComrniSsi on
ers mig hit make their collection eom.nissi ons
from the tax payers of the county" II this
waa his idea when he wanted to DO counsel to
the Commissioners, it is not oars. He is a
lawyer, and when he wrote and published
this he knew it was the sworn duty Of
the Commissioners under the law to order
these suits, but evsE since his disappoint-
ment he has been endeavoring by his pr
per to place the Commissioners and their
counsel in s. false position before the public
He further says that he "knows that one IS
the Attorneys to the Board demanded of che
Treasurer's clerk that the collections mace by
the Receivers should be returned to tbs Treas.
ury through the said Attorney. Eor what
purpose For none other than that the cora
missions should be retained" When he wrote,
and published this he knew 1t was not true
We have received nste from Messrs. Jean and
Almony, the only cle7ks in the TTeasarer's
Office, which you will. please publish in this con
nection. Yours truly,
]. r. ENsOR.
L. P. D. NEWMAN,