Middletown transcript., 1891-07-09

!, the most primitive prlnJlng once II
this country to-day, and on paper
which was manufactured in mill
which would not bear comparison
J with the mills of the present time
BY glimpse of this kind at the news
papers of that time we are able tc
comprehend the marvellous progress
made in the business of publishing
To-day the New York s'World " il
turning out an average of 100000
| copies per day OF q size twenty times
1 greater than that OF the Ulster
| County Gazette y Of January 4th
1900.
There seems to be no room to doubt
the possibility of as great an advance
in the next hundred years as that
which has taken place in the last,
but surely, il such be the case, the
millenium win have been reached al
that time.
The Chancellor Grants Preliminary
| Injunction.
A committee of the Levy Court was
engaged last week in an effort to
place upon the tax duplicates the
names of about 4, 900 men, said by F.
E. Bach and Marshal Mahaffy to re
side in Wilmington hundred. The
committee had in charge number
of tax receipts sufficient for the pur-
pose which had been procured from
the Wilmington collectors. 1t is said
by many that these receipts were
fraudulent and had been sold by the
collectors at rate which is below
what is required by law and also that
they had been sold in bulk to the
Republican Executive Committee.
The law requires the Levy Court to
be in daily session through the month
of March, after which time no new
names shall be placed upon the lists.
Without the least regard for the
provisions OF this law the committee
set about putting on these 1900
names in July. In order to prevent
this deliberate infraction of the law
John II. Rodney, Esq. proceeded to
Dover Monday and asked Chancellor
Salisbury to grant preliminary in
junction which would compel the
Levy Court to stop putting on the
names. After hearing the argument
the Chancellor granted the injunc-
ton and the Levy Court viii have to
show cause tomorrow why a perma-
nent Injunction shall not be issued,
which will prevent the putting on of
any new names.
When the Sheriff served the notice
the committee rested from their
labors and submitted to the inevita-
BILE. When asked why they intended
to place these names on the dupli-
Gates at this time in direct violation
of the law the answer was, that if
the Court of Errors and Appeals de-
cided the Churchman case, which is
now before that court, in favor of
Churchman, then Churchman and
all the other 1900 would be entitled
to have their names placed on the
duplicates, otherwise they could be
regarded as errors. This was regard
ed as too hasty a method by Mr..
Rodney who applied for on injunc-
tion. The Republicans claim that
several thousand dollars would be
saved by placing these names on the
lists, but, while this may have been
the idea of one or two members of
the Levy Court there is not much
doubt of the fact that the guardians
of the Levy Court were striving to
save $4,000 of party funds said to
have been paid for the receipts by
the Republican workers. 1t is said
that many persons have paid their
taxes and hold receipts therefore,
who were returned as delinquents'
In order to get at the facts the fol-
lowing resolution was adopted, viz:
WHEREAS, 1t is alleged and cur
rently reported that certain collectors
Of taxes heretofore appointed have
collected from various taxables of
this country a large sum OF money
and have unlawfully withheld and
retained the same and appropriated
it to their own use and
WHEREAS, No subsequent action
of said collectors can absolve them
from their obligations in paying to
the county any money unlawfully
withheld by them and due the coun-
ty; therefore, be it
Resolved, That q committee OF five
be appointed to investigate said
charges and proceed without delay to
take such action it shall be necessary
to recover from said collectors all
money by them collected and unlaw-
fully and fraudulently retained.
The resolution was carried unani-
mously.
AS there is danger of a serious de-
lay in the collection of taxes for. this
year, caused by the legal controversy,
Mr.. Grubb offered the following:
WHEREAS, The tax for the year, Az
D., 1891, has been levied upon The
basis Of assessment as ascertained
after the allowance of errors by this
court and
WHEREAS, The duplicates for the
receiver of taxes have been made out
in conformity with that levy and the
same is now ready for delivery to
him, and
WHEREAS, The Act of the General
Assembly provides that such dupli-
Gates shall be placed in the hands OF
the receiver Of taxes on or before
July 1st, which period has now
elapsed.
Resolved, That the duplicate afore-
said, properly signed, be at once
placed in the hands of the receiver OF
taxes in order that he may receive
such taxes.
After good deal of talk the reso'
luton was defeated and it is now GER
tain that the receiver will not get his
duplicate until the Chancellor ha:
| made some final disposition of the
case now before him.
|
ASor,