The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-11-02

| HUH anniversary OF the 1ounulng OF COkes
bury College, which was built in l1S5, and re
| port at the next meeting.
The commtte, appointed at the last meet
ing to secure a room for the society, reported
| but to action was taken.
The old officers were re elected to serve fo
another year, and the standing committees
were continued without change, with the ex
ception of the substitution of John 8. Hughes
| in the place of Benjamin Silver, deceased, or
the committe on library, records, and gene
| illogical history. Secretary A. T. Silver, do
mated to the society vol. of the Independent
Citizen was Bel Air paper published at that
time by John Mckinney, Jr., and Richard N
Allen.
The following donations were made by DR.
George w. Archer, who also furnished the
descriptive notes:
From Hopkins University.-Eight pamph-
lets of 1898 and 4, viz: Early Presbyterian
ism in Maryland. By Rev. j. William Nell,
vain 81 PIP
The Struggles of Protestant Dissenters fol-
Religious liberation in Virginia. By Henry
X. McIlwain, PHI. D., Prof. Eng. Hist, Hamp
Church and State in North Carolina By
Stephen Beauregard Weeks, PHI. d., Prof
Hist and Pol. Science, Trinity College, n. c.:
"A PIP.
The Constitutional Beginnings of North
Carolina, 1663-lT29. By John Spencer Bassett
Fellow in History, j. H. u, Prof. Elect OF
Hist. in Trinity College, n. c.: 70 pp.
Representation and Suffrage in Massachu-
sets (1620-l69l). By George II. Haynes, PHI
D., 81. FL. w. Prof Hist. Worcester Polytech
mic Institute, Mass: 30 PIP.
Local Government in the South and South,
west. By Prof E. w. Bemis, Phi. d., 81. H u. },
and Students in Vanderbilt University "a PIP
Popular Election of U. S. Senators. By
John Haynes, graduate student in John Hop
kins University "a PIP.
The Negro in the District of Columbia By
Edward Ingle, A. B.: 10 PIP.
From the heirs Of tine late DIR. Joshua Will
son. An original official certificate of Richard
Dallam, Lieutenant of Hartford county, July
%, 1850, that civilian Wilson has procured
a soldier for the American Army agreeable to
an Act for procuring troops, &c"
A letter from John Paca, father of William
Paca, Signer and Governor, of date August
%, 1775-concerning certain land certificates.
An Original Land Warrant for William
Wilson, signed by Benedict Calvert and Geo.
Stewart, Judges of the land office, of date
January Sd, 177S. 1t is endorsed, as required
by law, with the certificate of survey of Geo.
Goldsmith Presbury, deputy surveyor of Har-
ford county.
An original printed copy of an Act of Con-
gress passed July, 1877, for laying stamp
duties. 1t is counting house copy with en-
bellished margins.
Announcement of the Medical Department
of the University Of Maryland about 1927 with
AN excellent engraving of that imposing edi-
fce, as it then appeared with its antique dome
and massive columns.
From papers of the late Judge Archer. Ad-
dress to the People of the United States. By
Robert Smith pamphlet of Al pp.-Balti
more, 1911. MIR. Smith was a prominent
statesman at the beginning of this century.
Though not born in this State, both he and
his brother Samuel, the distinguished soldier
of &c, were brought in early childhood by their
father, in 1760, from Carlisle, Pa, to Balti-
more. where the father became a prosperous
merchant and an ardent patriot AS some of
Robert Smiths descendants long resided in
this county-one of them, Col. Robert IL.
Smith, a member of our society, still spending
his summers at his ancestral estate on Spesu-
tia Island, it will be proper to particulariZe ON
this occasion the numerous public positions
which Mr.. Smith held during his long aud
useful life.
In 1889 he was one of the college of electors
who chose Washington as President. In 1893
he was Senator Of Maryland, and four years
later member of the House of Delegates.
He was appointed by jefferson in 1901 his
Secretary OF the Navy, and in 1905 Attorney
General, but soon returned to the Navy De-
partment In 1906 he declined the chancellor
ship of Maryland and chief judgeship of the
District of Baltimore. In 1909 President
Madison made him Secretary of State, which
Office he resigned two years later and was Of
fered the embassy to Russia which he did not
accept.
His resignation of the Secretaryship of State
was the result of rupture with the President,
who, as he thought had treated him unfairly.
Indeed, the object of the pamphlet was to
yindicate his own political course while in
Mr.. Madison's cabinet. And this, it must be
owned, he has done to the confusion Of the
intriguers who had somehow gained the Presi-
dents ear ; and that illustrious man himself is
placed in an unenviable position before the
country.
With this one unfortunate event in his life,
Mr.. Smiths political career closed. But such
men seldom lapse into obscurity and he was
soon afterwards chosen Provost of the Univer-
sity of Maryland; and in 1918 he was made
President of the first Agricultural Society
formed in Baltimore and three years later
President of the American Bible Society. lie
died in December, 1912, in his eighty-fifth
year.
A parchment patent signed by the Governor
and the Chancellor, 1911, to Daniel Grafton
for a tract of 81 acres of the Reserves in Har-
ford county. The certificate OF survey on
which the patent was issued was dated 17S9-
antedating the patent itself twenty-five years
An old plot, without date, of the road from
Winters Run, through Bel Air, to Rock Run,
on scale of ten miles to four feet ()
Elements of Latin Prosody. By John Nee
Iy, Graduate of Dublin College. This little
pamphlet of % PIP. is of peculiar interest to
us from the fact that it was printed lin 1882
in Bel Air, by Mckinney and Elliott, editors
and proprietors of the "Independent Citizen"
1t is given in Latin as well in English.
The work was specially intended for the use
of the students of Bel Air Academy in which
the author was an assistant teacher during
the famous regime of the Rev. Reuben II.
Davis Mr.. Nicely is said to have excelled in
knowledge OF the classics.
From William s. Forwood, Jr. An old MS.
sheet found in an obscure nook Of the
County Clerks office. 1t is apparently the
first rough draft of specifications for the build
ing of Jail in Bel Air. 1t is without date,
but as there have been only two jais built in
the town, namely, one which was commenced
in 1889 and finished in two or three years
and the other begun in 1854, am inclined to
think that it refers to the first Jail erected in
17S9-'90. 1t is us follows: Il give it rerLdtim,
Hteratinl, ct ptnctuatint, because in that shape
it may possibly furnish some clue as to what
century produced it,
GOAL"
ITO be Sc feet by 80 feet wall built with
stopa and lime a cellar under the whole