The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-06-01

would be Gods blessing to the taxpayers
| if this board could never open another
| public road and for one, | am very much
| in debt to the editor for informing me that
| for this year, AT least, no new road can be
| opened; still candor com3els me to in form
| him that sections 81 to 90, of Article . of
the Code of Public General Laws, are still
in force, and that there is nothing incon-
| sistent in the County Commissioners open
| ing Il road and bringing it into existence
| and the Road Commissioners taking
| charge of it afterwards, for | would very
modestly suggest that until it is opened it
| is not a road. and not until it becomes a
| road does it go into the control of the
Road Commissioners, aud the County
Commissioners in opening public roads
| act, as it were iudicially and either open
| them by order or refuse SO to do. He
says there is a fearful inc Dnsstency' in
| the fact of the Road Commissioners hay
| ing the general supervision of all roads
| and bridges" and vet the "trustecs have
charge in their respective districts" and
| TONS" did he never hear of general
superintendent Of construction of Il rail
| road who had the general supervision
and that he or someone else appointed
district or section superintendent who
had Oh ,r-r within their districts: And if
he is 50 much troubled to know where the
functions of each cease, can he not ina CINE
that the general who appoints the SUB Or
dnarily settles the question rs to where
the duty Of the sub ends, or circumstances
necessarily determine or the act deter
mines and is it not entirely clear that the
supervision of the district is under the
Trustees, subject to the general control Of
the Road Commissioners. He is very
much afraid the road trustees may get a
pittancc, now and then, which should 60,
in his option, to his supervisor. Well,
if they do, any one, think, can guaran-
tee that the taxpayers will get more for 1t
| than they have been getting, and every
sensible man knows it is no use in calling
on people to perform duties and then ar
range the matter so they can get nothing,
for, as 4 rule, they do nothing This has
been tried about long enough. His fears
of want Of funds to open roads with is
not to be very seriously considered ae
these wise Commissioners generally look
to a surplus, so called, to do what they
may want to. Then comes the "monstros-
ity," that the license funl. that dear,
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dearly and, together with taxes from bank
stock, is SO highly priced, is to be appro-
priated to permanent Improvements; that,
in fact, is what hurts these statesmen So
badly The idea Of taking the license
fund" to make permanent improvements
is one too horrible for quiet contemplation.
What use has the editor and his Com
| mssioners for permanent highway? Of
course it is a "monstrosity.' Make a per-
manent road Of even a few miles long and
| take away the RICH. to pile up mud on it
| and deprive supervisors from yearly
| getting the taxpayers money for making
it worse Why have no doubt the aver
age supervisor and his boss both think it
| a "monstros;ty' But he don't give you
this reason for it. though it is ''thc Niger
in the wood pile but he says the people
| in the lower part of the county get no
| benefit from it. | have been in Prince
Georges county Il little longer than the
editor from Charles, who, few years ago,
was transferred along with the printing
press to Prince Georges equity, but it is
the first time in my life | ever heard any
one assert that roads leading into Wash
ington city were no use to the people in
the lower part of this county; my observa-
ton has been that the people of Brandy
wine, Nottin CHAM, Marlboro, Mellwood,
Piscataway, OXon Hill, Surratts and
Spaldings districts use the roads leading
into Washin gtGn city more than any other
people of the county, and, as they have
two Commissioners to one from the upper
districts, no fair man can say ii will all be
used in the upper end, though doubtless
it has been so charged.
But if he knows anything lie knows
these were questions to be settled when
the bill was pending. As powerful as he
is, his bcss is, and his Commissioners ar,
thanks to the principles OF American
jurisprudence, they cannot in form Of
law make law and beg to inform him
| that the legislature passes laws and de-
cent law abiding citizens obey them IN
til declared by the proper authority no
law, or until at least advised by their
selected legal advisers that it is a nuliity
And he says "all this money is to he eX-
pended under the direction of the Geolo-
gcal Survey, Il body of men having no
| connection with county affairs and be-
ing partly if we we are hot mistaken
under National authority and support.
| This provision is 70 less than an iniquity
to the general taxpayers of the county"
| If he had said it was an iniquity to the
non taxpayers who wanted, rs supervisors
to get the taxpayers money, / could have
| understood It, for know some Of them
bitterly oppose the application Of scienti
| fic principles to road making on the same
PRINCIPLES that some of them think Il road
machiHe is the mos, iniqGitjous thing. IS
is all ma, Ii merry which saves cost; an / as
the act simply provides that tile Boa d
of Com Road Commissioners are in
structcd to ava;, themselves Of the ADVICE
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