Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-02-18
THE A. 4. CO. BOARD
MAKES AN AFFIDAVIT
COntradicts Drafting ny Bill
Known as Greater Baltimore
League sill
FAIR Pi AY DENIED
Right to be Fair to Baltimore, But NOt
Right to be Fair to Anne Arundel
County

Claiming that Anne Arundel county
was not represented in the drafting
of any bill, known as the Greater
Baltimore League Bill' of the Nom
Partisan Greater Baltimore Exten-
sion League Bill. as stated by Mayor
Preston, of Baltimore, Judge Lesser,
S. S. Field and others, the president
of the Board of County Commission
ers for Anne Arundel county and the
Clerk have made affidavit, as follows:
State of Maryland,
Anne Arundel county. to wit:
/ hereby certify, that on this thirty
first day of January, 1918. before the
subscriber, Notary Public of the
State of Maryland, in and for Anne
Arundel county, personally appeared
James A. Walton, President of the
Board of County Commissioners of
Anne Arundel county, and S. Ogle
Tilghman, Clerk to said Board of
County Commissioners, and severally
made oath in due form of law that no
communication of any kind, oral or
written, has ever been received by the
Board of County Commissioners of
Anne Arundel county, or any of its
members, as to the drafting of any
bill known as the Greater Baltimore
League Bill or the Non-Partisan
Greater Baltimore Extension League
Bill, or any other annexation bill oma-
mating from Baltimore city; that said
County of Anne Arundel had no rep
resentative on any committee which
drafted such BILL nor was asked TO
appoint a representative or represen-
tatives
Atlantis further swear that the only
communication Of any kind, oral or
written, which was received by the
said Board or any of its members was
a circular letter received through the
mail at the Office of the County Com
missioners of Anne Arundel County
on April 10, 1917, at IL o'clock, A. NJ,
announcing that on the following day.
April 20, 1917. at 3 o'clock, p. NJ, in
Baltimore City. a public meeting
would be held on the annexation bill
that had been drafted, and inviting
the County Commissioners to appear
at that time and place TO offer any
suggestions or criticism they might
have Atlantis further swear that
the Board of County Commissioners
meet only on Tuesdays, which is "a
fact publicly known and easily ascer-
tanned, and that when the above men
toned letter reached the Office of the
County Commissioners it was be-
tween sessions of the Board and could
not have been, and was not, present
ed to the Board until April "a, 1917
Atlantis further swear that Mr..
James p. McGovern. mentioned by
representatives of Baltimore city as
being Anne ArundePs county's repre-
sentative on the committee which
drafted the annexation bill in ques-
ton, is not a resident or citizen Of the
State of Maryland and did not, direct
ly or indirectly, represent Anne Arun-
del county, or any of its citizens, but
that Mr. McGovern's connection with
the matter was solely as a representa-
tive of one of the industrial plants at
Curtis Bay, and that the said affiant,
James A Walton, President of the
Board of County Commissioners, is in
receipt of a letter from the said Mr.
McGovern containing the following:
my attitude and that Of my clients
has been, and will continue to be, one
of absolute neutrality, as we believe
the question to be one that should be
settled solely by the electorate"
JAMES A. WALTON,
President, Board of County Com
missioners of Anne Arundel
County.
s. OGLE TILGHMAN,
Clerk to Board of County Commits
sioners of Anne Arundel
County.
Subscribed and sworn to before the
undersigned the day and year first
above written.
LAURA JICKLING,
Notary Public.