The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1889-04-26

of them, however, were not used in paving
the streets. Nearly 10000 being left over,
were sold, by Mr.. Hays, about one-half of
them to some eight or ten persons in the
town and vicinity, and the remainder to Mr..
James A. Fulton and DR.. E. Hall Richardson,
the building committee of the Presbyterian
Church. Aud it may as well be noted here,
though little off the track, that Mr.. Hays
Lad bill against that committee as follows
1851, to removing the old building, SIS.
This was, no doubt, the little house which
stood directly opposite the Academy, and
which had long been occupied by an old black
woman whose special business il was to sweep
out the Academy, make the fires, &c. To
hauling done in October and November $19.
To 1880 bricks delivered at the church,
$50 mo charge tor hauling them. To ten
feet front of lot sold the church, $50" Total
Sl34. Rev. Mr.. Bosworth seems to have
been one of the building committee, though
not mentioned in the ledger. Mr.. Joseph
Gorrell was the contracting carpenter, and
Mr.. Coale the painter. Mrs. Sophia McHenry
is said to have barne nearly one-third the
cost of building the church.
In May, 1852, 10000 brick remained at the
kiln, which Mr. Hays took off the Commits
siOners' hands at S. thousand His bill for
hauling from July, 1S49 to November, 1851,
was 1886, which, added to the amount already
stated tor previous hauling, given as the total,
S706. There may have been hauling done
by Others of which we have no record.
At various times from 1852 to 1857, as
shown by loose papers, some eight or ten
citizens advanced small sums to he repaid
out of the lottery fund when received, $l0S
of the amount being advanced for the speci-
fed purpose of paving the cross street."
wherever that may have been.
1t is worth noting that in September, 1851,
MIR. Hays hauled "three six-mule team loads
OF curbstones from the Rocks of Deer
Creek" All the other curb-stones seem to
have been quarried out at some other point
in the vicinity of the town.
Although Mr.. Hays was still one of the
Commissioners as late as November, 1857,
there is no entry after May, 1857 relating to
the paving of the streets. Some later ledgers,
no doubt, contain such entries for as funds
were still coming in from the Stale lottery
commissioners for several yeats afterwards, as
already shown, it is not at all likely that the
enterprise was long suspended. Indeed, there
is loose paper-a sort of skeleton statement
without date, but necessarily made after
October, 1857, which shows that of the 1914
received frOmthelottery commissioners tothat
date, $5,40S had been paid outby the treasur-
err, up to the previous February, for work on
$3.50 still due of the original $4,000, made
Sj97 available for future paving. The last
dollar was probably paid out about the time
the courthouse was burned, to rebuild which
cost more than twice as much as paving the
streets.
Since writing the above | have found the
acts under which the paving was done and
although not accomplished within the time
specified there was no one to question the le-
gality Of the proceedings, under these acts,
which are in substance as follows:
by act of Assembly passed March, 1885,
Joseph Robinson, Stephen Bond, James Wal
lace, VIM. B. Bond, Israel d. Maulsby, Thos.
A. Hays,.Wm. ]. Mcllhenny, John McKenny,
Saml. Bradford, Henry Dorsey, of Edwd.,
Elijah j. Bond, Ohio Scott, Aquilla p.
rls and Harry d. Cough are authorized "to
proposea scheme of a lottery, the drawing
thereof 10 be completed within two years, to
raise a sum not exceeding $4,000" They
are To "apply so much of the money arising
from the sale Of the tickets within six months
after the drawing shall commence as will sat
iSfy the fortunate adventures for prizes
drawn by them, and shall within two years
after the completion of the drawing apply
the money SO raised to the improving and
paving the streets of Bel Air and for purchas-
ing such fire apparatus as they shall deem ex-
pedient for the security of the town"
An act, passed March, 1876, sets forth that
"Whereas the act of 1885 authorized certain
persons to draw lottery for paving the
town of Bel Air, and whereas all the parties
who consented to serve under said act are
dead or removed from the State, and whereas
the treasurer GThos. A. Haysl who held in
his own name certain funds realized from
said lottery, is also dead, and since said time,
Bel Air has been incorporated and has taken
charge of the paving of the streets, BE it en-
acted, that the treasurer of the town is en-
powered to receive such sums as may be
due on account of the lottery fund"
Under this act the sum of 1928 was drawn
from one Of the Baltimore banks in 1876 and
applied 10 the improving of the streets, &c.
Of Bel Air.
From an old cash book of Mr. Hays, shown
to me by Mr.. Jno. 5. Young, the balance due
the Street Commissioners from the lottery
was at the end of 1857, 81 ,1G4 at the end of
1858, $5l1 and Mt the end of 1861, 1928
which last is the sum drawn from the bank
of Baltimore in 1876.