The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-03-15

Bill Filed for the Sale of Pimlico Race
Track.-Charles H. Nicolai, one of the sur
viving incorporators and trustees of the Mary
land Agricultural and Mechanical Association.
has, by Messrs. Gill & Preston, attorneys, filed
bill in the Circuit Court for Baltimore coun-
ty for the sale of the property on which the
Pimlico race track is located.
The bill names as defendants the Maryland
Agricultural and Mechanical Association, the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, W. E.
Banks Surviving trustee), John A. Robb (sur-
viving trustee), Frank Brown and the Pimlico
Driving Club
The bill alleges that by an act of the Legis-
lature in the year 1867 the plaintiff and others
were granted charter incorporating the
Maryland Agricultural and Mechanical Asso-
citation; that shortly after $4,000 was appro-
priated to buy land, but that as the association
had land already this $25 900 was paid over to
them, with the assent of the Legislature, as
shown by amendments to the act of appro-
priation.
That Baltimore city expended money in i'm
proving this place and putting it in condition
and rendering it suitable to the purpose for
which the association was organized.
The original incorporators were also trus-
tees, and were to hold the assets of the associa-
ton in trust for whoever should have an inter-
est in it. And if at any time the association
should not carry out the design for which it
was chartered it was to be dissolved and the
trustees were to pay all money obtained from
its sale back to whosoever should be entitled
o 1t.
That for some time past the Maryland Agri-
cultural and the Mechanical Association has
failed to bold exhibitions or to encourage in
any manner agriculture or the mechanical arts,
and that it should therefore be dissolved.
1t is also stated that the Pimlico Driving
Club has some private arrangement with per-
sons who are said to pretend to act as a board
n n which
cupies the grounds of the association, COM
prising ~ acres, on Park Heights and Belvi-
dere avenues, in this county, and valued at
$125,000, without any advantage to the asso-
citation.
1t is requested in the bill that decree for
the sale of the land be passed that the court
also pass an order assuming jurisdiction over
the trust originally created and that it dissolve
the association and cause the proceeds of the
sale to be given to those by law entitled.
Member of Prominent Family Cele-
brates Birthday.-The observance on the
7th instant by Mrs. Mary q. Dallam, of Bel
air, of the seventy fifth anniversary of her
birth, marked an important event in the his
tory of the well-known Dallam family OF
Maryland, members of which have been
prominent in the affairs of the State for gen.
erations. Mrs. Dallam is one of the Oldest
residents of Hartford county. For some years
she has made her home with her daughter,
Mrs. William b. Nelson, of Belair, and while
strong and vigorous mentally, the infirmities
incident to advancing years are beginning to
weigh upon her. Mrs. Dallam is daughter
of the late Israel D. Maulsby. who was mem
Der of the Hartford county bar. He repre-
sented his county in the Legislature for
twenty-nine years, and was a member of the
Governors Council. Her husband was the
late William H. Dallam, who was at one time
major of the Seventh Maryland and sup
ported the cause of the Union until the sur
render at Appomattox. He died in 1888, while
holding the Office of Deputy Collector of the
Port Of Baltimore. Mrs. Dallam was born,
and up until few years ago, lived at Tulip
Hill, favored spot near Belair, which was
inherited from her father. The property is
now occupied by her son, ex-Secretary of State
Richard Dallam. The only other children
living are Mrs. William B. Nelson, of Belair,
and Mrs. A. H. O'Brien of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Dalam is sister of Mrs. Sarah Jane
Yellott, of Baltimore county, and an aunt of
Major John /. Yellott aud County Commits
sioner George W. Yellott.