The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1890-03-28
The Egis & Intelligencer
Bel Air, Md, March %, 1890
Legislative Notes.

Senator Silver on the Goth instant introduced
bill to amend the charter of the Deer Creel
and Susquehanna Railroad Company and allow
it TO consolidate with other companies.
An amendment to the bill TO tax mortgages
exempting Hartford and other counties was los
in the Senate, on the Goth.
Mr.. Silver the same day offered an amend
ment to the assessment bill, which was adopt
ed, making Hartford county two assessment dis
tricts, the first to be composed of the second
fifth and sixth election districts of said county;
the second to be composed of the first, third
and fourth districts. The bill, as passed by the
House, divided Hartford into three assessment
districts.
The bill amending the charter of the Loan,
Trust and Security Company OF Hartford county
and the bill relating TO birds and game in the
same county passed the House on the Goth in
slant.
The grain inspection bill, after discussion.
passed The House on the Goth. The Hartford
delegation voted against it, believing it to be
contrary to the interests of farmers.
The Senate on Saturday passed the bill to
amend the charter of the Bel AIR Turnpike Com
pany.
The bill TO refund to j. Thos. Webster and
Margaret s. Chesney certain taxes paid in error in
Hartford county passed the House last Saturday;
also the bill giving the owners of stations
lien on mare and foal.
The Governor has signed the bill to refund
Joseph A. Price, late collector of State taxes for
sum of money paid enormously by him for State
taxes into the treasury of the State of Maryland.
Also the bill amending the charter of the city
of Havre de Grace.
The bill to authorize the Deer Creek and Sus-
quehanna Railroad Company to consolidate
with other railroads was read second time in
the Senate on Monday, and passed on Tuesday.
Unfavorable report was made on the bill for
the appointment of State road and bridge en-
gineer.
The Senate voted to exempt mortgages from
taxation.
The bill appropriating $4,000 to the Mary
land Agricultural College was killed. on Mon
day, by striking ont the enacting clause.
The Governor returned to the House the bill
appropriating one hundred dollars for the re-
pair of the hay scales at Havre de Grace, the
bill having been vetoed by him. The Governor
gave as his reason for vetoing the measure that
the act under which these scales were built pro-
vided that all expenses or repairs incident 10
keeping of said scales in good and perfect re-
pair should be paid by the commissioners OF
Havre de Grace.
joint resolution empowering the board OF
public works to sell the scales aud lot OF ground
and to turn the proceeds into the State treasury.
The veto was sustained by the House.
Governor jackson also vetoed the bill for the
removal of the county seat of Charles county |
from Port Tobacco to La Plata and the veto |
was sustained.
The Governor, in message to the House. on |
Monday, called attention to the important con-
stitutIonal amendments yet to be acted on, as |
also the proposition for increasing the revenues |
of the State by taxing corporations. He also |
said: "The question of registration and ballot |
reform, together with high license for the sale |
Of liquor, both as a revenue measure and as one
tending to lessen poverty and vice, are measures |
which were promised by both political parties
during the last campaign, and are now demand
ed By strong and intelligent public sentiment.
They have been acted upon by the Senate and
should not be overlooked by you. l would
again respectfully urge upon you the absolute
necessity of prompt action"
The grain inspection bill has been withdrawn
from the files of the Senate.
The bill appropriating $25 900 year for ten
years for the extension of the Maryland Peni-
Tertiary passed the Senate on Tuesday. S.na-
tor Silver voted against it, saying that in the
present depressed state of affairs the Legsla-
ture should go slow in making SO large an ap-
preparation.
The bill to prevent trespass on the property
of railroads was amended in the Senate so as to
exempt Hartford and some other counties.
The assessment bill was amended in the
Senate, on Tuesday, to prevent the plant of
companies from being exempted
from taxation for longer period than five years.
Another amendment to exempt land from the
extent of the mortgage upon it was lost.
An amendment to the appropriation bill, Of
fered in the House by Mr. Preston, of Hartford.
to cut off the appropriation of $1,000 to the
Maryland Agricultural College, was defeated.
The general appropriation bills were passed
In the House on Tuesday, under a suspension
Of the rules.