Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1906-03-30

state, further, was afterwards informed
that you had publicly declared ia Bryan
town that you were in favor Of such
Bin as | had outlined to you.
As time passed without having heard
from you | concluded that You would, as
an honest and public spirited citizen,
opposed, as am, to the vicious features
OF the liquor traffic, serve on a Board
clothed with power to refuse license
in any given case, and to revoke license
upon proper complaint. I have neither
seen nor communicated with either Of
the two other proposed members Of the
Board; but | used their names upon the
same principle that / used yours. know
ing that if the Bill be enacted into law
we shall have a body of men, while
charged with the execution Of duties
second in Importance to the duties Of no
other body in this County, Of a character
second to no other body exercising legal
or public functions here. In determin-
ing upon you I did not think, nor do l
now think, that / was placing YOU in a
position inconsistent with your profess
sions and chat this was not intended to
'head Off the alleged Prohibition Bill
appears from the fact that the Liquor
Traffic Bill was not even introduced I'M
til the unconstitutional, as / conceive it,
and drastic Lancaster Bill was defeated.
In fact, whatever may be the result Of
any Of the Local option Bills now pend
ing in the General Assembly, or, rather.
whatever may be the result of any cleo
tion held under any local option law for
this County, it is absolutely necessary.
meanwhile, that we shall have some
certain and enforceable law the Local
Law we now have being, as the Court
has already declared, defective, and un-
doubtedly unconstitutional il the whole
matter should ever be brought before
the Court.
In this connection may state that the
question Of the insutticiency of the pres
ent Local Law was not raised by me at
the last term Of Court although l had
sought four years ago, just after this law
had been passed, to have a judicial de
termination as TO its validity vel non,
so that we might know under what law
licenses should be taken out and upon
what law indictments should be framed,
the General Law being effective if the
Local Law should be declared unconsti-
tutional. But upon failure to accomplish
this by the regular and orderly determi-
nation of the Courts, publicly advised,
l'u gano tLe ol,ii'i1' t't llcei'Ses sii9uld
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