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Chairman authorized  offer $10C,CCO  for Balto.  & Fred-ericktown Turnpike.
Motion lost regarding purchase  of Boonsboro and Emmittsburg Turnpikes and construction  of New Market -New London Road,
with  the  condemnation  of  said ri#its,   easements and title,   and so instructed .its  counsel.     On July  1,   1909,   Counsel   to  the  Commission was unanimously authorized to  retain additional   counsel for the condemnation proceedings  in this   case  in "Baltimore  County,   and he now reports that  a survey for  that  purpose  of said road in Baltimore County has been i.iada and  the  preliminary   .rork  is  nearly complete.
?'r.   *i.  w.   James undertook to effect  an   amicable  adjustment  of the matter,   and  on receipt   of his  report  of  inability  to induce  the  Turnpike  Company to  nane  a price  that he  could  advise the  Commission  to  pay,   it  was,   on July 19,   1910,   ap-ain unanimously voted that the  Counsel be authorized to  proceed at  once  tocondamn.
I have no desire  that this   Commission  take the  property of any citizen except at  fair  compensation;     and   if  a careful examination of the  books  of the  Turnpike   Company shows  that  $2.75 per share,   the   figure named a few weeks ago by the President  of  the Company,   is  too     low,   I  am entirely ready  to  reconsider the matter. The   figures I have  baon  able   to collect,   however,   all  tend  to   shov; that  $2.75 per  share  is   the  full value  of the   stock;     and if  the right-of-way  cannot "be   secured on  this basis,   I cannot   see wherein this  Commission would "be  justified in  now rescinding its well-considered decision  to  employ  the means  expressly provided,   in  the  law creating  the  Commission,   for  fixing the  values  of  such  roads.
Dr.   ^erasan moved that  the  Chairman "be  authorized to   offer without prejudice,   $100,000.   for  all the right,   title   and interest   of the President,   Managers,   and Directors of  the ^altimore  and •Predar-icktown Turnpike Road Company in and  to  said Turnpike  from its terminus in Baltimore  <"!ity  to   its terminus  in Washington County. The motion was  seconded by Kr.   Hutton,  and adopted,   T)r.   ^lark  amd J.'r.   Shoemaker voting  in  the   negative.
Governor   Cr others moved that  an  offer of $1,000.   per mile "be made  for  the  pike  from "Rounsboro   to  Ha^arstovm,   and £l,OOO.   per mile   for  the  T'Tmmittsburg Pike  from "^rederick  to  a point   near  the IvTonocacy River,   and that  the  road  from >7e-.r Market  to  vew rcndon he constructed,   known  as  the ?Taw London,  Mew Market  and Monrovia Road.
On the   question being put,   fTovernor  Crothers and Fr.  Hutton voted in the  affirmative and Messrs.  Remsen,   Clark and  Shoemaker in the  negative.     The  motion was lost.
"Dr.   Clark  then moved that   the  road through >Tew Market  to New London be  constructed.     This motion receiving  no  second,   was lost.
Requests    from delegations	Delegations from Charles,   St.  *rary's and prince
of  Charles, St. Mary's and	Counties appeared before the "Roard regarding the  construction of
Prince Geo's  Counties for	certain sections of road in the various counties.     T>r.   rarrico,