The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-03-16
TAXPAYERS MEETING SUG-
GESTED FOR TUESDAY NIGHT.
To Discuss More Suitable Location For the New
County Jail.
PRESENT SITE INVOLVEMENT
For Everyone Having Business With County Off
cials---PubIic Buildings Should Occupy
Prominent Place and Be Easily
Accessible.

Ever since the determination of the Board of County Com
mssoners to erect jail for the county announced and
the declaration the part of the board place the a on
lot wholly insufficient in size and at point where it will be
further removed from the business section of and there
fore mconvenent oevey to less degree the
payers only of Oakland but of nearly every district in the
county have expressed themselves being dissatisfied with the
proposed location for should the Commissioners persist this
it follows matter Of that the court house which
must be built many years will be located within easy reach
Of the jail and that the wind swept and almost mac
cesbe hill overlooking town where the advantages due all tax
payers in public building will be denied them unless they
choose scale the small mountain crowned by the castle to be-
Taking this view of the question that of vital importance
the people who have business with the officials
other thing OF equal Importance presents ITSELF touching sit
does upon the health Of the entire community that being the
proper drainage and sewerage from the jail and house
At recent meeting Of the Town Council ordinance pre-
sened that body for passage granting the county officials prv
ege for term of average life time dump all sewerage in
the Little Yough at the pumping station of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad company located above the old mill dam
Water street This ordinance, and rghully, acted
upon by the Council the members taking the stand that grant
such would be in clear violation of the laws of health and
the life and welfare Of everyone residing along and
the immediate vicinity of the river Sewerage in this direction
being Of the question renders the proposed location
undesirable than and adds another papable reason
why the building should not be erected where the Commits
SoneS intend to place it.
With the objections the proposed site above stated and
other and equally enabe has been suggested
by very large number Of the heaviest payers of the
and country that public meeting Of all the citizens of the
who may be in Oakland next Tuesday attending that
meeting of the payers and citizens be held Tuesday night
the opera house and to this meeting the Commissioners who
will also be in Oakland that day, well the Judges of the
Circuit Court and other public officials be invited and the
of better and centrally located site be thoroughly
discussed Such meeting would relieve the Commissioners of
responsibility that may be connected with the location of
the proposed building and will show the public generally that
interest is being manifested in and better buildings for the
county
In all where bic buildings have been erected in
cent years they occupy the most prominent places within the
where they only easily accessible but
and in which citizens in all walks of life take interest
number Of sites which will meet with the requirements for
the public buildings centrally located and not of extraordinary
cost be secured if the Commissioners desire do
Everybody should attend the suggested meeting. will be
free to all