The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-03-05
Annapolis notes


ofthe arrearages due the State by the Reading
Railroad Company on account of the lease OF
the Susquchanna and Tidewaler Canal.
The House bill relating to the powers OF
the Commissioners of Hartford county in i'd
justing and levying for claims has passed
the Senate
Mr.. Sappington presented in the Senate
the memorial Of L. r. Tucker and 800 other
citizens of Hartford county, praying the en-
aclment of law requiring scientific temper
ance instruction in our public schools. 1t
was referred to the Committee on Education.
MIR. Plowman's bill to protect travellers at
railroad crossings ought to be passed by the
Legislature and signed by the Governor. 1t
provides that the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore Railroad Company shall sta
ton tlagman at the Magnolia crossing, one
west of Aberdeen, where the railroad crosses
the post road, and one east of Swansbury
Mills, where the railroad also crosses the
post road
BY the bill the Baltimore and Ohio is re-
qulret to Station Il tlagman at the point
where their road crosses the Hartford Furnace
and Perrymansvile road and one at the
crossing on the Churchvile and Aberdeen
road.
III addition 10 The crossings specified, all
railroads in Hartford county, now existing or
hereafter made, must place fagmen at all
points where The public interest requires
them, upon the request of the County Com.
missoners.
The bin is almost identical with one in
operation in Baltimore county. 1t has pass.
ed 10 Il second reading. Strong influences
are at work against it, but the delegation, be-
lieving that Hartford county is as much en-
titled to consideration in n matter of this
kind rs Baltimore county, is determined to
push the bill through, ifpossible.
The Hartford delegation is also solid in its
opposition to the bill to change the charter
of the p, w and B. Railroad, so as to allow
the company to stop only certain trains at
Havrc de Grace The charter for the bridge
at first called for driveway or footway over
the Susquchanna river, for the accommoda.
ton of the citizens of Hartford and Cecil
counties, but in lieu Of this The railroad COM
pany agreed to stop all their trains and carry
pedestrians and vehicles over free of charge.
This has been done for years, and it is now
sought to stop only certain trains. This
movement, if successful, would doubtless in
terfere seriously with the business of Havre
de Grace. The facilities for taking trains
there at almost any hour of the day brings
many persons 10 the place, who, without this
| advantage, wound probably find other stations
more convenient
Our delegates at Annapolis, it is said, are
not united in regard to the necessity of issu.
ing county bonds for the payment of the DAM
age to bridges and roads by the flood of Au.
gust Sd, 1885. Messrs. Archer and Plow-
man, it is understood, do not favor the bill
although as no protest has come from the
people of the county they will not oppose it,
1t is the opinion of delegate Plowman that
the losses can be met by comparatively
slight additional levy, together with pairing
down county expenditures in every direction
He thinks that by not building any more
new school houses for year or two, and by
| appealing to the road supervisors TO use the
strictest economy in their expenditures, more
than $4,000 can be saved. With this, and
an addition of 10 cents on the 800 added
to the levy, Mr.. Plowman believes't the deb,
can be paid and the county saved the pay.
ment of interest. A county debt is some.
thing to be avoided if possible. Persons
| looking for land are inclined to give wide
berth to counties with u bonded debt, for the
reason that it is usually n sign of extrava
gance, bad management and high taxes Mr.
Plowman's views are entitled to considera
| ton
Mr.. Archer, of Hartford, last week present
ed petitions from the wilma Farmers Clut
asking the Legislature to wind up the affairs
of the Maryland Agricultural College; also
asking the passage ofa law to protect sheer
from the ravages OF dogs.
In the House, on Tuesday, Mr.. Silver, O
Hartford, obtained leave to introduce bill t
abolish the offices of State fish commission
ers, now held by Messrs. Delawder ant
Humphreys. These gentlemen were las
week reapponted by Gov. Lloyd when h
sent his appointments to the Senate. 1t il
understood that the ways and means commit
tee in making up the appropriation bill will
not report an appropriation for the expense
of the fish commissioners Those who asl
for the abolition of these offices say the fsl
commissioners bureau costs the State $13, 00
a year, and that there are no satisfactory re
suits from their work