Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1914-01-14
.EASTPORT WANTSA
MAGISTRATES OFFICE
Justice Meade Files Request With
County Board
WOULD USE OLD BUILDING.
Peoples Coal Company Awarded Con-
tract for Furnishing fuel To The
Jail.

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With the view of having an office
for the trial of cases as we'll as head
quarters for the police officer OF
Eastport. w. Hersey Meade. police
| Justice for the Second district, has
asked the County Commissioners ia
fit up the building in the village that
was formerly set aside az headquar-
tiers for the police officer, but which
| has not been used for that purpose
for some time.
Justice Meade laid the matter be-
)re the Commissioners in a letts r filed
yesterday. After calling attention
&c the fact that the vacant building
would suffice the purposes, MI.
NJ sade asks the Board 10 have a heat
er installed therein. and to equip the
office with other necessaries. Under
existing conditions all offenders of
the law arrested at or near Eastport
are taken TO Germantown for trial,
where the regular office Of the
Second district magistrate is To-
Gated.
IL the Commissioners acctd de to
the request now before them, the
establishing of such an office at
Eastport would prove of conve nj
ence to offenders as Well as all 9TH
err parties concerned. The Commits
sioners laid the matter over for
further consideration. Meantime,
an investigation will be made.
Upon the recommend alton of Com
missioners Shepherd, Of the Eighth
district, the Board appointed Presley
s. Taylor as constable of that dis
trict
Bids for furnishing coal to the
county Jail on Calvert street were
opened and the contract was awarded
to the Peoples Coal Company, which
submitted the lowest bid, viz $6.42
per ton. Forty tons of No. coal is
the amount desired, and it is to be de
livered in the bins under the con-
Cract. There were two other bi ders
in the competition The next lowest
was that Of Robb Combs & Co., s6.45
per ton, and the Henry b. Myers Co,
Sc 80 per ton.
Upon the application Of the Chess-
oake & Potomac Telephone Company.
and the payment of the usual poll
tax, permission was granted that
company to erect forty-six poles on
the road leading to Leon, from MARI
boro, in the Eighth district; also
thirty-eight poles or the road to
Deale's leading from Shady Side, also
in the Eighth district. This means
an extension of the telephone system
in that section of the county.
The committee consisting of Com
missioner Hammond and Engineer
Hayman recomme 1ded the acceptance
If the Offer of Messrs. Joseph NJ.
Brian and Charles Linthicum Of a
short strip of road in the county.
Another road matter under consid-
Grafton is that of strengthening the
thoroughfare leading from Pasadena
to the Baltimore-Annapolis boule-
ward. A request for this was made
by Mr.. James Bond, and the matter
was referred to Commissioner Will
lisms and Engineer Hayman, with
power to act.
Two white residents Of the city
were ordered committed TO Spring
Grove Asylum for treatment, having
been adjudged insane. They are Ma
tilda Rochlitz and John E. Beachum.
The former was committed upon GER
tificates furnished by Drs. William
S. WEIGH and J. Oliver Purvis, and
the latter by certificates of Drs.
Welch and Walton H. Hopkins.
The bill presentd by DR.. John Rid
out for $40 for post-mortem exaui-
nation oh the young colored boy who
was shot by his brother near Arundel
on-the-Bsy few days ago, p1ecipi-
tated some little discussion as a re :
suit of which the Board reduced the
amount to So.