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gross injustice to the other dealers and business residents of
the city to permit others to conduct business operations with-
in a few hundred yards of them and not be subject to muni-
cipal taxation or municipal supervision. That steam fire
engines have just been bought by contributions from the
citizens and from the municipal corporation as such, and the
persons now seeking to put themselves outside the corporate
limits, have the benefit of water and market privileges, in
most cases of lights, and in all cases of police protection and
relief in case of fire. That one of the Board of Aldermen
comes from the territory sought to be cut off, and we
should have the strange anomaly of an alderman for
the next two years who is a non-resident of the place,
that large sums of money have been expended in re-district-
ing the city under the Act of 1870, and in contesting the
validity of the Act of 1870, with one of said persons in the
Courts of the State, including the Court of Appeals, all of
which litigation resulted in favor of the said municipality ;
and that since expenditures herein referred to have been
made, it would be unfair and unjust and of great inconveni-
ence and injury to the said municipality to pass the proposed
law, and the said corporate authorities would pray your Hon-
orable Body, in behalf of the great mass of her citizens, not
to pass said bill, and to give them an opportunity to be heard
and to produce evidence before the Committee of your Honor-
able Bodies, believing that they can easily show to such com-
mittee the injustice and unfairness of the proposed bill, from
the facts herein stated and many other facts which are too
numerous to be detailed in a petition of this kind.

And as in duty bound, &c.

P. M. ENGELBRECHT,
LEWIS H. DOLL,
HENRY GOLDENBERG,
T. M. WOLFE,
A. L. EADER,
CHARLES G. SMITH.

Which was read, and referred to the Committee on Cor-
porations.

Mr. Lee presented the memorial of the Trustees of the
Western Maryland College, praying for a favorable consid-
eration.

Which was read, and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Mr. Sulivane submitted the following :

Ordered, That the Committee on Finance make report on
Wednesday, February 20th, upon Senate bill entitled an Act