The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-05
TO BOND COUNTY.
School Board Likely to Ask Next
Legislature For Authority to Is
sue $35, 900 Bonds-New School
Buildings Needed, And Old OnSe
In Need of Repairs.

It is more than likely that the
County School Board will ask the
next session of the Maryland Legis-
lature for permission to Issue
county bonds to the extent of So
600 for the purpose of erecting
new school buildings and repairing
many of the buildings already IN
use, but which are in so delapfdated
condition as to be almost uninhab-
liable, besides which, they reflect
discredit upon the county.
OF urgent need at this time are
one or two new buildings for Can
bridge. Both the Academy ana
Seminary buildings are CIR ded
beyond the point of rendering eff
fective service. In the Seminary,
the assembly hall has been dispen-
sed with entirely; children are
crowded into the basement, all In
an attempt to make room for the
constantly increasing number of
children demanding admittance to
the public schools. The same con-
dition exists at all the lower schools
an addition, or new building, must
be built in East Cambridge, and re-
pairs must be made to other schools.
The colored schools are, at pres
ent, held in various rented bulls
ings. and it seems absolutely neees-
sary to erect a new building for
them.
While this but lightly touches up-
on the actual conditions in CAN
bridge, the conditions in the county
must not be overlooked; there 4re
a large number of the school build
ings in this county that would rot
be used by farmers to keep th<lr
stock in, and yet they are used rs
seats of learning for the boys I'D
girls of the county.
Their condition is largely due 10
the lack of funds, with which pr~b
lem the School Board has had%to
deal for several years, on account
of the fact that the County Com
missioners have failed to appropri-
ate enough money to keep up re-
pairs; in fact, this year, while The
School Commissioners, after caFe-
fully estimating their needs, asked
for $4,000, the County Commission
ers only appropriated $4,000, COM
polling the School Commissioners to
devise means of reducing their es-
Inmates by $4,000.
That the School Commissions
will ask permission to issue bonds
Is indicated by the following reeo-
luton. unanimously adopted by the
Board at their meeting Nov. 25th:
Whereas, the pEblic schoolhouses
Of Dorchester county very much
need repairs and improvements. in
order to make them more cpm-
Portable for pupils and teachers;
two new school buildings being
needed for Cambridge, one Tor
uAl0 dAu OnC 4Oi CO4OAS4<
pupils, the whole cost of which viii
aggregate, in the opinion Of TIE;
Board, at least $4,000. and,
Whereas, said sum cannot be {aier
ed by immediate and direct taxa
ton without making the tar rte
burdensome and excessive, therefore.
Resolved, by the Board of County
School Commissioners of Dorchester
county, that it is the sense Of the
Board that Dorchester county bonds
to the extent of $4,000 should be
issued, under a provision of law
to be enacted by the coming Cen
eral Assembly of Maryland, for the
purposes above set forth, and the
citizens of Dorchester county are
hereby requested to give this propo-
sition their serious consideration
and support, as we feel the cause
of education imperatiyely demands
1t.