Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-03-23
GOVERNOR WILL
SIGN CITY BILL.
Annexation Measure Presented
To The Executive Yesterday
Afternoon.
EXTRA BILLS IN.
Provisions Made In Nuttle Bill
To Pay This County A Pro
portion Of Its Bonded
Indebtedness.

Although he would have preferred
to see the passage of the Campbell
substitute, offered during the last
night OF the fight by Senator Allen
Governor Harrington will, il is said
by persons close to him. sign the
Greater Baltimore Annexation Bill
which was presented to him yesterday
afternoon
Speaker Wooden accompanied Chief
Clerk Robinson TO the executive cham
Der, when he was ready to present
the bill, and the measure was pre-
sented to the Governor in regular or
der The Executive smilingly said it
was hardly necessary to have any
formality about the proceeding, but
the Speaker thought it best. The Gov
ernOr thereupon insisted that the
usual method of procedure should
be complied with, and he instructed
the Chief Clerk to receipt the bill.
Led by Benson of Baltimore coun-
ty, the anti-Annextionists yesterday
afternoon made a final stand to de-
lay action on the bill, when it was re-
turned from the Senate endorsed with
that body's final passage. The pur-
pose was to delay until Monday the
delivery of the bill to the Governor.
They believed that if the desired de-
lay could have been secured it would
be within the power of the Governor
if he so desired, to give the bill a
pocket veto after the adjournment of
the General Assembly. With the bill
now in his hands he must sign or veto
it before the final adjournment on
Monday of week after next. Senators
and delegates and others from Bal
timore and Anne Arundel counties
will bring greatest pressure upon the
Goveror
1t was to prevent a pocket veto that
quick action was taken.
With Senator Duvall announcing
that he would have nothing to do
with such a weak sop to the counties
after the unjust Greater Baltimore
bill had been jammed through, the
city forces yesterday started about
their job of putting in supplemental
measures.
Mr. Nuttle introduced the bill which
is intended to meet the objection bear
ing on Arundel county's bonded in
debtedneSS. 1t requires Baltimore
City to pay to the county a sum equal
to the proportion of its net bonded
indebtedness on January /, 1918, less
the amount at that time to the credit
of the sinking funds provided to re-
deem the bonds, and after deducting
from the taxable basis that portion
of the assessments exempted from
county taxation.
This money is to be paid in ten
instalments, the first on September
l, 1919, and every succeeding year at
the same time The city is then to
be relieved from paying for the bridge
over Curtis Creek but must main
tain and keep in repair this bridge
and also that over Cabin Creek
Another bill introduced by Senator
Frick continues the jurisdiction over
all race tracks in the territory an
nexed of the Racing Commission of
Baltimore county. This means that
Pimlico will still be controlled by the
Commission now having control.
Senator Nuttle's Anne Arundel bill
provided for the payment to this
county of such a proportion of the
net bonded debt of the county as the
taxable basis of the annexed section
of Anne Arundel bears to the taxtble
basis of the entire county. The gross
debt of Anne Arundel is around $780,
600, but the net is said to be consid-
erabIy less than 100000. No one
seems to know exactly what portion
of that the city will have to pay, but
it has been estimattd that the figure
will be around $4,000 This will be
nlieu of the payment for the Anne
Arundel bridge, specified in the city's
bill Mr. Nuttle's bill also provides
for the payment of interest by the city
upon it's deferred payments to the
conuties, for public property in the
annex.