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whom is entrusted the expenditure OF
this large sum of money, but, instead
the same old system which has been
followed for many years still con-
tinueS, Notwithstanding the fact that
it has long since been recognized
that the system is about as much out
of date. as compared with modern
methods, as the old two wheeled gig
would be for travel.
The next largest item is that for
| Public Schools, amounting to $780,
| 600. This money is paid over 10 the
County Board of Education by whom
it is disbursed.
The next largest item is Bond Re-
/ demption and interest, under this
| heading, the total items of which are
$36,795.00 are found the following:
| Bond Redemption. SIT, 500; Coupon
! Bond Interest $9,495; interest and
Discount $4,000; Interest 1920
! Bonds, $4,000 and Interest Aims
House Fund, $500. From these
| figures it may be seen that the cOun-
ty is paying out this year $19,29 5,
! in interest, apparently representing
a bonded Indebtedness OF $305, 200,
but since there is an item of $4,000
for the 1920 Bond issue to be deduct
! ed, averaging the interest at per
| cent. the bonded Indebtedness would
seem to be 900.
Other larger items on the list of
expenditures include: County Com
missioners salaries $1,700; Treasur-
er and Deputy, $4,000; Clerk to the
Commissioners $1,000; Tax Super
visor, $1,000; Typewriter, $500;
Janitor, $3.50; Court Expenses $500
Clerk of Court $500; Hudson
School, $4,000; Registration and
Election $4,000; Hospitals $4,000;
Maryland Training School, $500;
Contingent Fund, $500; Emer-
gency Fund $4,000; County Print
ing, $500; Assessing new property,
| $1,000.
Everyone must certainly realize
| that the County Commissioner sys-
TEN of Dorchester County needs
| changing There is no reflection
upon the present incumbents in MAX
| ing this statement; they are doing
| Just what others have done for the
past fifty years before them, but, the
| question naturally arises with every
citizen who gives any thought to the
matter, that there have been many
changes in business methods in the
last half or even quarter of 4 cen
fury; there is not single business
in the country that is conducted
along the same lines that it was
twenty-five years ago, but if there
have been changes in the County
Commissionership they have merely
been of men and not of system.
Among those who give the matter
thought it is not believed that three
men or five men Or ten men, sitting
in business session once in two
weeks, with no active manager. no
one authorized 20 supervise The work
during the other eleven work days,
can be expected 10 get as successful
results from the expenditure OF
$22O,OOO or nearly 100000 n month,
as if there were someone with auth
ority on the job all the time. The
Commissioners usually meet about
eleven o'clock in the morning,
routine matters, the passing OF the
bills for the three Commissioner dis
tricts, the hearing of delegations.
etc, consume the greater portion OF
the few hours they are i'll session, as
a result but little time is left fer
real practical constructive thought
and action.
What is the remedy for the Hitua-
ton is a question that requires th@
thought of the tex payers all over
the county. The reason the county
roads are in such shape as they are;
| the reason that there has been SO
much dissatisfaction with the office
in the past, has been due TO tie fat