MSA SC 5458-35-43
Dates: 2005/08/11
Description:Lithographer's
Stone Research
Request:
"I would like
Ryan to research on the context of the stone (the law, the extend of the
issue, its redemption, etc. There should be a great deal about it in the
Comptroller's annual reports, the Board of Public Works minutes,
and in the surviving accounting records of the State. I also want a history
of the building that was constructed with the bond money. Ed"
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Summary
1)The bond proved
capital funds for a number of building projects, not just one building.
2)The Maryland
House of Correction (Jessup) was one of the properties improved by the
issuance of bonds.
3)The
Board of Public Works actions, 1904 ; 1905
History of the
Issuance
Passed at the January
Session of the 1904 General Assembly.
Laws
of Maryland, Ch. 228, 1904, provides for the issuance of $1.625 million
dollars in Maryland State Bonds. The bonds matured in 1919. Known as the
"Public Buildings Loan," the bonds provided funds for completing and repairing
the State House as well as work on these other building projects:
Maryland
House of Corrections
Springfield
State Hospital
Maryland
Asylum and Training School for Feeble Minded
Maryland
Agricultural College
Maryland
Hospital for the Insane
Cambridge
Hospital
Charlotte
Hall School
St. Mary's Academy
St. Mary's Female
Seminary
Maryland Institute
Relief Fund Commission
(related to the Baltimore Fire? probably)
Note:
The bond provides
for the House of Corrections not the Maryland Penitentiary.
to wit:
The Division of
Correction originated in the nineteenth century when the first State prisons,
the Maryland Penitentiary and the Maryland House of Correction, were erected.
Prior to 1916, the two prisons were autonomous. Each operated under the
jurisdiction of either a board of directors or a board of managers appointed
by the Governor. In 1916, these institutions were placed under the State
Board of Prison Control (Chapter 556, Acts of 1916). The Board of Welfare
superseded the State Board of Prison Control in 1922 to administer the
prisons (Chapter 29, Acts of 1922). In 1939, the Department of Correction
and the Board of Correction replaced the Board of Welfare (Chapter 69,
Acts of 1939).
The Maryland House
of Correction was the second prison established by the state. Authorized
by Chapter 233, Acts of 1874, it opened in January 1879. A medium-security
facility, it was designed to house convicts sentenced to less than three
years' imprisonment. The sentence restriction was lowered to one year by
Chapter 513, Acts of 1884, but was restored to three years by Chapter 739,
Acts of 1910. Annual reports from 1900 to 1903, however, reveal that some
inmates of the House of Correction were serving sentences ranging to ten
years. In addition to those imprisoned for criminal offenses, the initiating
legislation permitted Justices of the Peace to commit "any vagrant, habitually
disorderly person (not insane) or habitual drunkard" to the House of Correction
for up to six months.
See the Annual
Report of the Comptroller, 1904, for disbursment schedule - esp. see
preface
page "ix".
The Legislature
of 1904, per Chapter 228, created a new Loan, known as the "Public Buildings
Loan," providing for the issue of $1,625,000 Maryland State Bonds for the
purpose of com- pleting and repairing the State House at Annapolis and
for sun- dry other public buildings in the State, as follows:
State House at
Annapolis........................ $600,000
Maryland House
of Correction.................... 200,000
Springfield State
Hospital....................... 200,000
Maryland Asylum
and Training School for Feeble Minded .......................................
66,000
Maryland Agricultural
College..................... 57,000
Maryland Hospital
for the Insane................. 53,000
Cambridge Hospital.............................
10,000
Charlotte Hall
School............................ 5,000
St. Mary's Academy.............................
5,000
St. Mary's Female
Seminary.......................4,000
Maryland Institute...............................
175,000
Relief Fund Commission.........................
250,000
Total....................................
$1,625,000
By 1905, the state
issued $825,000 of the loan in fiscal year 1904, and an addition $600,000
in FY 1905. See Annual
Report of the Comptroller, 1905.
"While
I share with you, as well as every other citizen, a just pride in the public
institutions of this State, for they are among its most valued assets,
yet due care should be taken lest we allow State pride to lead us beyond
our actual needs and the limit of conservatism. As we increase and enlarge
our public institu- tions, we of necessity increase the cost of their maintenance,
and unless a limit is placed, such maintenance must be either helped by
a direct tax or the Treasury relieved of the burdens of some of its other
appropriations."
Newspapers:
Public Notice announcing
the sale of the bonds was to appear at least twice per week in two Baltimore
newspapers from June 2, 1904 through July 1, 1904. The sale was to commence
July 2 through July 15, 1904.
Note:
I did
not find the ad in the first week of June 1904, in the Baltimore American
Did
not find the ad in the Baltimore Sun.
If the ad does
not appear in either of the main Baltimore papers, I don't know where it
would have run.
Who was the Lithograher?
Possible candidates:
1904 Polk's Baltimore
City Directory list lithographers:
Balto Lithographic
Co.
Crowl Pearre Co.
Loius J. Doetche
Equitable Lithographing
and Engraving Company
Falconer Co.
Friedenwald Co.
Gamse H. &
Bro.
Gray Lithograph
Co.
Guggenheimer,
Weil & Co.
Hanzche &
Co.
Hayes Lithographing
Co.
A. Hoen &
Co.
Kohn & Pollock
Maryland Lithographing
Co.
Maryland Color
Printing Company
Adolph Rothchild
also
Conrad Ludloff
fl.1870-1890 maybe longer.
Most likely:
A. Hoen & Co
of Baltimore: in 1905 received $125 for two books containing 200 stock
certificates. In 1897, Hoen prepared lithographic maps for the Maryland
Geologic Survey - See Geologic Survey Commission. Maryland Geological Survey:
Volume 1. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1897). They printed a certificate
book of stock for the Treasurer's Office in 1886, and continued in similar
service for several years following. Hoen has a long history of state service
executing images for Woods Baltimore Directory in 1856, and appearing as
early as 1853-54 in Matchett's Directory
1848 August and
Ernest Hoen assumed control of E. Weber & Co. and renamed it A. Hoen
& Co. in 1853. According to Laura Rice's Maryland History in Prints
1743-1900, they produced a "prodigious amount of commercial work" over
the course of the 19th century (p.357-358)
Several etching
stones were atuctioned at the dissolution of the firm. See Theodore W.
Hendricks, "Hoen lithographic firm closes doors on 146 years of history
in city," Baltimore Sun, April 18, 1981
Other possibles:
Crowl Pearre Co.
provided $3 in autograph stamps for the MD Treasurer in 1900.
Guggenheimer, Weil
& Co was the "stationer of the Treasury Department - 1898. They submitted
a bid to print the 1904 General Assembly of Maryland (proceedings or session
laws), but did not win the contract. The contract went to Wm. J. C. Dulany
Co.
Accession No.:
MSA SC 5458-35-43
Date Entered:
08/11/2005
Date Completed:
No. Pages:
0
Amount paid:
$0.00
Amount due:
$0.00
Tracking No.:
T 04-0
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