Evening star., 1924-02-09
RIvERDALE TAX BILL
PASSED BY SENATE
Provides for Special Levy for
Purchase of Fire Department ;.
Equipment.
EDMONSTON MEASURE UP
Measure Provides for Independent
Municipality.
EDMONsT0N MEASURE UP
Special Dispatch to The Star.

! ANNAPOLIS. Md. February "a
bill, introduced in the Maryland leg
i islature early in the session by Sem
ator Lansdale s. Sasscer of Prince
Georges county, authorizing the may
or and common council of Riverdale,
! that county, to levy an additional tax
for the purchase of fire department
| equipment. passed the Senate yester-
day and will be introduced in the
! House next week.
| The bill directs that special levy
| of thirty cents on each hundred dol
! lars of assessed valuation be made
during 1924 to purchase fire equip
ment and that an additional levy of
! five cents on the hundred be made to
provide d fund for its maintenance.
A majority of the residents of River
dale voted to raise the tax rate to
purchase this equipment at an cleo
| tion held short time ago.
After d dull session OF fifteen min
utes, during which only s y bills were
introduced in the house and the same
number in the senate, the general as
sembly adjourned to meet again at
! $3.50 O'Clock next Monday night.
EdmonstOn Hill introduced.
The present taxing district of Ed
monston, Prince Georges county,
| will become an independent incof-
porated municipality il a bill in
Itroduced in the house here by Dele
gate Charles Il. Ager OF that county
passes tie Legislature and is approved
/ 10y the voters OF the district at Il
| special election to be held on June
IL, 1924.
| Another bill making it unlawful
for the Washington suburban sanI-
;tary commission to empty any sewer
lor sewer drain in any river. stream
Stream bed or waterway within the
/ district under their Jurisdiction or
Ito construct an open sewer, was in
troduced in the house by Delegate
lager. The commission may, how
lever, extend the sewers and drains
ito empty into the tiuewaters of the
jeastern branch of the Potomac be-
ilow the town of Bladensburg. Any
,sewer now existing which violates
the above provisions must be made
to empty in the eastern branch. the
iccmmission having one year from
June /, 1924, when the act becomes
defective, to make the necessary
ior not exceeding thirty days is pro-
vided for violations.
Bill Governs Sink Boxes.
| Delegate George ]. Hess of Prince
| Georges county introduced a bill re-
! quiring all persons who desire to
| erect or maintain sink boxes in the
| Patuxent river to apply to the clerk
| of the county circuit court for a
| license, the cost of which is establish
| ed at IS. and a fee of rs cents. The
| bill further provides that no sink
boxes may be constructed in waters
| opposite the property of any one
| without written permission of the
! owner and at least 800 yards from
/ another sink box.
! 1t shall be lawful to shoot ducks
! any weekday, during the open season,
| according to the bill, but no sports
men may shoot from licensed blind
| without the consent of the owner.
| A minimum fine of SIS and a maxi
mum of $25 or five days in Jail is pro-
| vided jfor violations.
J The name of the poorhouse in
Montgomery county would be changed
| from "almshouse" to rcounty home"
| by a bill introduced by Delegate
! William H. McCeney of Montgomery
| county.
! The real and personal property of
/ the Montgomery County Agriculture
| Society will be exempted from county
! taxation If bill introduced in the house
| by Delegate George l. Edmonds of
| Montgomery county is passed.