Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-04-20
COMMISSIONERS NOT
TO PAY TREAS. BILL
10 Receive Commission Only On
New Property Added by Him.
COUNSELOR MELvIN'S OPINION.
Followed Protest Against Road Award
---JOint Railroad and Traffic
Bridge Suggested---Bids On
State Aided Roads.

The County Commissioners at their
regular meeting on Tuesday transacted
important special ami routine business
The question of the right of the County
Treasurer to charge commissions or
new property placed on the assessment
books by the Supervisor OF Assess
.nents. was denied after an opinion TO
that effect had been given by Ridgely
p. Melvin Counsel to the Board
The opinion SAYS in part
My construction of the statutes gov
erning this matter is that those items
added to the tax levy by the County
Assessor. who is paid $1,000 year for
his services. which include this very
feature, the County Treasurer is not
entitled TO any commission for those
items added to the tax levy which were
placed there by the County Treasurer.
or under his authority he would uu-
doubtedly be entitled to the commits
sion for the Act of 1914, does not re-
peal that part of the existing statute
which allows the County Treasurer to
make new assessments
In short, the county IS bound TO pay
but one assessor 1t should be add
ed however. that the spirit. # not the
Letter, of the Act of 1914 is unJoubte1ly
to transfer all this business of assess
Ing new propery 10 the supervision OF
the State Tax Commission and its
County Assessor"
MIR. Wilbur Miller, President Of the
Dawson Chemical Company. was be
fore the Board asking the Commission
ers to consider proposition to bridge
Curtis creek with combination bridge
of the county aud the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad and the United Electric Rail
ways Company, claiming that this sec
tion of the Third district by being CON
nected with Baltimore city by trolley
line would build up by the Dawson
Chemical Company erecting houses
for their employees and the county
would gain by increase in basis OF
assessment This matter was held uu-
der consideration.
Attorney James p. Banuon repre-
serting Mr. Harry joyce and other tax
payers of the Fourth district. was be
fore the Board protesting against the
action of the Commissioners in the
proposed contract for building sec
ton of the state Aid Road known as
Sulphur Springs Road claiming that
the law had not been complied with
before advertising for said proposals.
This mater was referred TO Counselor
Melvin fer his opinion.
For the one ami thirty-siX hunGredths
miles of road between Severn Station
and Sulphur Springs it was found that
the lowest bidder was A. F Fedili Co.,
of Baltimore, whose figure was $14,-
4S1.S1 The second was Frank 81 Du
vail. Of St Margaret's, whose figure
was $14.550.49. There were four other
bidders
For mile OF Linthicum Heights
Road. the lowest bidder was Fisher &
Carozza. of Baltimore. $9,045.04 and
A. r. Fedih OF Baltimore. was second
with S10.004.04. There were three
other biCAiers.
The bids were referred to the State
Roads Commission for tatulation and
approval
The bill for expenses of maintenance
OF the County Home was returned to
the trustees, the commissioner hOLu-
ing that it had not been properly eX-
amined.
Upon the certificates of Drs. J. Oil
yer Purvis ard Walton II. Hopkins
Conrad Schwartzhaupt of Annapolis
was adjudged insane.
In view OF the fact that the law re-
quires all exemptions from taxation 70
be passed prior to the making Of the
levy. the Commissioners set Tuesday
May =, as the date for hearing appli-
cations for such exemptions.