Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1881-06-24
Correspondence.
COM UNICATED
Editor Of the Times !.

COMMUNICATED.
Editor Of the Times. /.
Dear s'r,-l have been requested by several
persons TO publish an explanation of the cause
which induced me to resign nv seat in rbe
| Board of County Commissioners. but helm q
| very averSe TO my name appearing in the peb-
| lie prints, | invariably refused to do so. si1Ce
however, you have made mention of thsnna at
| ter IN your local columns, | feel it incti mt
on me to make statement and show WI as
really the cause OF nv action
Your report is correct as far as it goes, but
YOU do not state all. At the meeting of the
Board held May 81, (the one previous to the
| meeting held TO pass accountS.) | introduced
| resolution that the officers of the Ci1alit
Court and the Register of Wills be requested
to present their accounts on the first dav of Our
| meeting (June I, SO that our attorney could
have time TO investigate the legality OF their
charges this motion was unanimously passed
The accounts however, did not appear until
ednesdav Sth. The first one taken up for
consideration was the Registrars account, and
upon perusing it made objection to what
considered erroneous charges, particularly the
item for stationery $50, it was Il en- passed
over to our attorney who was prese 1t, and at
ter looking over it he said the account wastn
accordance with what had been the custom for
TO give n legal opinion, whereupor | mmed-
ately moved that the attorney should have
time to investigate the account rnd report al
our next meeting stating at the time, that init
could be made apparent that the account was
in accordance with the charges allowed by law
| would cheerfnlly approve it. This thought
was fair enough and course 30 which the
Registrar himself could take no exceptions
An amendment was offered to my motion.
lCh I.h flor S,lt 4 Oh III
drawn. | Immediately renewed nv motion
and II vote was taken upon it. resultin. as you
have stated. Seeing now clearly that it was
the intention of the Republican wing of the
Board TO pass the accounts AS they were pre-
sented without any sanction of law. and ma.
ing ignored entirely the resolutions adopted 1T
the previous meeting, concluded that | could
be of no use in tie Board, and being unwilling
to create any additional expense by nv attend
aace there, Immediately rendered my reSign.-
ton. II may be proper here to state that
have not sent my resignation TO the Governor
having been informed by very good authority
that this daty did not devove upon me Thes
are the facts in the Case, and | am willing 40
abide by the verdict of til. people as TO " neither
| was right or wrong. But YOU say we can
not approve his action still it cannot he said
the cause was slight one Now | am al
loss TO the logic of this last sentence com
hined with the first. for If the cause WAS not =
slight one ii must have been one OF magsa-
tude. and therefore, ficient to Justify the ac-
ton. II is true when coasen'ei 10 become a
member OF th- Board wzs fully aware that [
the majority OF the menhers were Republican I
in sentiment, hut had reason 10 believe that
theV were men who. approaching the rcspOnsi- .
hitv Cf their tru>tS and the sanction of their /
Off aJti oathS. would, when he right way was
pointed uui to them, ia sue the path OF recti- /
tude resHrdvS. ~ party Interests. In this ]
fosnd WAS mistaken and ih,rruunn severed
my connection with them let ne assure YOU Z
that nv resolution Viii, h offered WAS not in-
tended party question. bnt simply rs an
adjustment beta cen the offer and the people /
and had that officer been 81 Democrat nv action f.
would have been the anne for ! know no dit
ference between man aud man When called
upon TO act in an official capacity.
1t is passing strange 10 me how our people
can submit to the impas,tions " hiCh they have
suffered ye.r after wear for several Years past
and not complain The wonder i the, do not
ri.e up In their r,udear and put dow this OPP
preston. Already laden with taxation they
withou, any sanction OF Jaw by unblashing
and esignng politicians, 1t IS high time 'bt.
state OF things should ED or else this sill
seon be = bankrupt community. Already we
are OF the verge OF 1t, aud our county fathers
should deem it their duty without regard to
politics. poi,icians or dcmasnEurs, 10 thor /
ouEhlr investigate every accosnt brought be
fore them before acting upon them, OF else shf
fer the condemnation Of an Indignant people
II, {. Pace.