Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1914-03-26
SAINT MARI s beacc:l
A. +. KING. Editor.
LEoSARDTowN, MD.,
Thursday Morning March 90, 1914

AS OhuCh tnoS VIC t0attOdu s4tuA-
tion may be understood, and after
discussion with number of promi-
nent citizens, we deem it advisable
TO state the stand that seems 10
meet with the approval of our
people. There is but one opinion
~ regards the necessity and desire
for the road; also, our taxpayers
are willing that the county should
subscribe TO stock after the road
has bees completed, provide.
however, that the road be COM
pleted from the City of Washington
70 some point near the mouth Of the
Patuxent River, or to some feasible
point on the st. Mary's River.
The two bills introduced in the
Maryland Legislature, authorize,
empower and direct the County
Commissioners of st. Mary's
County to subscribe TO the preferred
capital stock or the income bonds Of
the Washington, Chesapeake and
Potomac Railroad Company. and to
issue bonds to provide for the pay
ment of same, as joint bills are at
variance in section 8. Senate bill,
No. $50, section 8 reads:
Sec. 8. And be il enacted, That
said bonds properly executed may
be delivered at not less than their
par value, 10 the Washington,
Chesapeake and Potomac Rail-
road Company, its successors or
assigns IL payment for said pre-
ferred stock or income bonds.
when the said road shall be COM
pleted and ready for the opera
ton OF trains between Washing
ton, ID. c., and some point on the
Patuxent River in st. Mary'S
County at or near the mouth there
OF, or some point on the ST
Mary's River, and not before, or
the some may be sold at not less
than the par value thereof, by the
said County Commissioners, and
the proceeds paid 10 the said Rail-
read Company in payment for
said preferred stock or income
bonds.
This section our people wish en-
acted in the law. Section 8, of house
bill, ISL, reads as follows:
Gna Al H., 70
said bonds properly executed may
he delivered at not less than their
par value, TO the Washington.
Potomac and Chesapeake Railway
Company, its successors or assigns
in payment for said preferred
stock or income bonds, when the
said road shall be completed and
ready for the operation of trains
between Brandywinc, in Prince
Georges County, State of Mary
land. and some point on the Paiux-
ent River, In St. Mary's County
NJ or near the mouth thereof, or
some point on st. Mary's River.
ana not before, or the same NAV
ne sold az not less than the par
value thereof, by the said County
commissioners, and the proceeds
paid TO the said Railway Company
in payment for said preferred
stock or income bonds.
This section should be amended |
so as TO correspond with section 8 |
of Senate bill $50. in order to re-
ceive the endorsement of St. Mary's
taxpayers.
Our people are not only willing
that the County shall subscribe to
stock for tt equipping of the road
but numbers have expressed their
willingness to subscribe a portion
of their personal savings toward
the movement. In the county
progressive wave is now on and we
have begun TO go after things that
tend to our uplift. Long expert
ence has taught us tina, neither rail
roads nor other facilities for the en-
joyment of life and enhancement of
our wellbeing will come to us, tina,
We must get together and seek for