The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-01-19
PROPOSED LEGISLATION IS
APPROVED BY TAX PAYERS
Resolutions Adopted at Meeting
Saturday Calling On Legisla-
tors To Support Measures
WOULD REDUCE LEVY SOC.

Asserting that if the proposed
legislation of the County Com
missioners' Association, which
has for it's purpose the reduc-
ton of the tax burden, was en-
acted into law, the tax rate of
Garrett county would be reduced
fifty or more cents, Garrett
county members of the General
Assembly were asked to give
their best efforts in support of the
bills, at meeting of about two hun
bred taxpayers in the Court House
in Oakland last Saturday morning,
the meeting being presided over by
Charles w. Ream, of Crellin, who was
selected after he had been named for
the post by County Commissioner ~
w. Harvey. Henry M. Speicher, of
Accident, was the secretary of the
meeting. George D. Browning, of the
Commissioners board explained the
proposed measures as they were pre-
scented in the resolutions adopted by
the meeting.
The resolutions adopted as they
were presented, read as follows:
The Resolutions
WHEREAS, The County Commits
sioners' Association of the State of
Maryland, in meeting assembled, at
the City of Annapolis, on recent
date, unanimously adopted a program
which it is proposed to submit to the
Maryland Legislature for the purpose
of having the same encated into laws
and which has for its object the re-
duction of the heavy burden of taxes
now eXacted from the taxpayers of
the various counties of the State, and
which said bills briefly are as follows:
(a) To reduce the minimum
amount of the money to be raised by
the several counties of the State in
order to participate in the State fund
from 81 cents on the $4,000 to 40
cents.
(b) To apportion certain amount
of the gasoline tax to the County
> Commissioners of the several coun-
ties to be used in maintaining the
roads of the counties outside of State
roads.
(c) To enact proper legislation so
as to permit cases of larceny involv
ing $500 or less before Justices
of the Peace and reduce the same
from the crime of felony to misde-
meanors.
AND WHEREAS, If said proposed
bills are to become laws of this State
and the taxpayers have the benefit
thereof in the reduction of their taxes,
it is necessary that said bills have the
active and loyal support of our repre-
sentatives in the Legislature; there
fore be it
RESOLVED, That we, the taxpay-
ers of Garrett county, in meeting as
sembled, this 14th day of January,
1888, do earnestly urge each of our
respective representatives in the Leg
islature to give their best efforts in
support of said bills that the same
may become laws, and the taxpayers
of this county may have some relief
from the tax burden under which
they have been laboring.
c. w. REAM, Chairman.
HENRY M. SPEICHER, Secretary.
The amount of the gasoline tax to
be apportioned to the commissioners
under the proposed law was under
stood to be one cent of the 2-cent tax,
and the taxpayers were firm in their
desire to have the county commits
sioners retain control of the county
roads instead of putting the State in
charge of these highways, as, suggest
ed by Governor Richie in his message
to the Legislature.
Should the proposed legislation be
enacted into law the 1888 county levy
would in all probability be around
S1.OO or $1.1O on the 500 valuation
of property, it was stated. The levy
for schools would be cut 81 cents and
the gas tax would bring three-cent
reduction in road upkeep.
DIV hMEDTC