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1892.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
I do not think there has been any very great change
of sentiment upon this question among our people
within the past two years, and a large prepondency of
our tax paying people are still opposbed to this
measure.
The present court house, a massive and substantial
structure, is ample for the accommodation of all the
public business of the county, and the preservation of
all records relating thereto
The public sentiment of the county having been
thus shown by repeated and unmistakable manifesta-
tions to be strongly adverse to this measure, I deem it
unneccessary and inopportune to force this matter
upon our people.
The only hope of the promoters of this measure, as
I believe, in submitting this question to the people at
this time is that (through the decided partisan shape
which the measure in its recent history has assumed)
the non-tax-paying colored voters of the county may
be induced to vote as a practical unit in its favor.
These people have by the force of habit, ever since
they have exercised the right of franchise, become
strongly predisposed to unite in voting, and all the
indications point to their adopting the same course in
voting upon this question.
There is another consideration which cannot prop-
erly be omitted from this report. It is this: There is
another station on the B. & P. Railroad, known as
Bel Alton, which has equal advantages to those of La
Plata and has its advocates, if the county seat is to be
removed from its present site, and who propose to
offer inducements for its removal to said place when a
majority of the tax-payers signify their desire for its
removal.
No allusion was made to this vexed question in the
campaign of last fall, and it seems to me that it would
be a wrong to our people under all the circumstances
to pass this bill.
F. J. MADDOX,
Member of Special Committee.
Which was read, and ordered spread on the
Journal.
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