Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-01-12
TAXPAYERS COMMITTEE
DISCUSS LEGISLATION
Would Consolidate Offices of At
torney to County Commissioners
Supervisors and School
Board.
ONLYONE CITY POLICE JUSTICE
Would incorporate Brooklyn Curtis
Bay and Eastport---Dr. Garner
Opposes Increased Salaries for
Teachers---Will Add Six
Cents to Tax Rate

Discontinuance of the system Of en-
ploying road engineer aId number
of useless district foremen, and substi
tuting therefor the placing of fun re
sponsibility for road conditions upon
the County Commissioner from the
various districts will be recommended
to the taxpayers of the county as one
of the needed changes in the present
road laws of this county.
This was agreed upon at the meet
ing of the taxpayers committee at the
Court House yesterday The draft of
a bill to accomplish this will. it is row
expected, be completed before the next
meeting of the committee next Tues
day. While the representatives of
some of the districts or the committee
wanted to provide for the sale of The
county teams and a positive return to
the contract system nf building and re
neld generally, and this portion of the
new law will probably be in a meas
ure optional.
Further progress was made by the
subcommittee of the taxpayers meet
ing, which is formulating a report
upon the legislative needs of Anne
Arundel county at the hands of the
General Assembly, when the commit
tee came together at the Court House
yesterday morning.
The committee practically determin
ined finally to recommend the discon-
tinuance of the office OF county road
engineer and requested Chairman Mel
vim TO draw up draft of a bill doing
this.
Most of the time of the committee
was devoted to a thorough inquiry into
the needs of the school system. Coun
ty superintendent Samuel Garner was
before the committee and discussed
with them the proposed increase in
teachers salaries to which he is op-
posed on the ground of the inability to
raise the necessary increase.
Superintendent Garner also discuss
ed with the members of the committee
the proposal to provide for consolida-
tion of number of the schools of
the county
Other matters taken up at the meet
ing yesterday incluced further dis
cussion of the proposition 10 incorpor-
ate BROOKLYN, Curtis Bay and Fast
port, but there was no definite con-
clusion reached.
II was definitely determined to re
commend legislation doing away with
one of the police justices in Annapolis
and abolishing the office of special po
liceman in the Fourth district
A proposition, suggested bv Mr.. f. l.
Hancock, which was adopted by the
committee, recommends that hereafter
building permits be required for all
buildings on farm or urban communi-
ties in the county. It was urged that
even though very small fee be charg
ed for the issuance of these permits
they being required before additional
buildings can be erected in the county
will insure the County Commissioners
and tax officials having an immediate
record of any increase in value by
additional buildings
The consolidation of the offices Of
counsel to the Board of County Com
misisoners, the Supervisors of Elec-
tloH5 anu itle SCUOOi commissioners
was also agreed upon as necessary.
This will do away with two Offices.
The salary for the consolidated office of
general counsel was not agreed upon
at this weeks meeting.
There was very general and lengthy
discussion of the proposition to further
increase the salaries of school teachers
in the county and of plans for the
consolidation of some of the rural
schools. No definite action was taken
on either of these plans. however. DR.
Samuel Garner, County Superintendent
of Schools, was before the committee
for .une time and gave his views
upon this subject. DR. Garner pointed
out that to give the teachers the salary
they are asking at the hands OF the
Legislature, will unquestionably add
FIVE to six cents to the tax rate. even
if each teacher only gets an increase
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