Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-01
EVANSVILLE ASKS
LIMITS EXTENSION
Residents in Territory Mile
Square Seek to Be Taken
Into Town Corporation.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

! Special dispatch to The star.
HYATTSvILLE, Nd, February /.
That Hyattsville within a few
years will be a small city of close
| to 5000 people appeared today vir-
tual certainty. Petitions signed by a
majority of property owners from the
section west of the corporate limits of
Riverdale and from Hyattsville Hills
asking that the sections be made a
part of the corporate limits of Hyatts-
vile last night were submitted to
meeting of committees that are pre-
pairing proposed legislation to be laid
before the Legislature, now in session
at Annapolis. A committee made up
of the mayor and Town Council, an
other representing the Chamber of
Commerce and a third representing
the citizens at large received the pc
titions.
A special committee of attorneys,
comprising G. l.. Aiello, chairman;
Charles w. Clagett, Waldo Burnside
and S. Marvin Peach, is drafting a
bill to be laid before the Legislature
Thursday. 1t was agreed last night
that provision should be made for the
bill becoming effective Immediately
upon it's passage.
Would Comprise Fourth Ward.
The territory it is planned to annex
embraces from the Hyattsville line at
west side of Calvert street to south
side of Colesville road, along south
side of Colesville road to New Cut
road, thence along east side of New
Cut road to Sacred Heart Home prop
erty and east of the Sacred Heart
property to present northwest line OF
HyattSville
1t was decided that the bill should
provide that the territory should com
prise the fourth ward and that it
should be represented by two council
men. Both would be chosen at the
next regular town election, on May 2,
one to serve for one year and the
other for two. After this year the
year to serve for a two-year term. The
bill, it was agreed, should provide
that the people of the new area be ex-
empt from town taxation for one year.
Every effort, though, will be made to
secure from the county the rebate on
road taxes paid by these property
owners.
1t was stated last night by John Fl.
HollingsWorth, who presented the
petition from property owners In the
territory west of Riverdals, and II.
w lISOH CIlChIldl, LCpl tlAE
chamber of commerce of Hyattsville
who presented the petitions from
Hyattsville Hills property owners, that
the names on the petitions repre-
sented decidedly the majority of prop
erty owners in the areas and that
more could be secured. A number OF
citizens from each territory backed up
the views expressed by Hollingsworth
and Spicknall.
Committee to Go to Annapolis.
The proposed bill will be taken to
Annapolis by Mayor Irving Owfngs,
representing the mayor and council;
Waldo Burnside, representing the
citizens committee of Hyattsville, and
DR.. Fl. T. Willis, president of the
chamber of commerce, or some repre-
sentative Of the schamber designated
It was estimated last night that the
territory 1t Is proposed to annex
covers at least a square mile, with
population of about 600. 1t is develop
ing rapidly and it's population within
a few years will, 1t is thought, with
the improvements such las better
roads, lights and fire protection, jump
to several thousand.
Among the measures to be pre-
scented to the Legislature are those
giving the town authority whenever
it deemed it for the public benefit to
take over and improve any street
within the corporate limits, strength
ening the law regarding town tax
sales, providing that the annual salary
of the town treasurer shall not exceed
So 900 this office Is now on a fee
basis, making it unnecessary for the
town clerk to personally appear in
court whenever a copy of the town
ordinance is required to be submitted,
providing that appeal from decisions
after convictions for violating town
laws shall be by certiorari, changing
the law as to the appointment of town
assessors so that they shall be named
in January instead of June, and be
required. to report at the first meeting
of the council in May, and providing
that when only one candidate is nomi-
mated for a town office the election
shall be held in any ward designated
by the mayor and town council.