view raw text
RAeiNGBILLFORBALTIMOKE " MEASURE INTRODUCED AT ANNAPOLIS FOR . APPOINTMENT OF COMMISSION. Action Taken to Forestall Expected Move to Have Present System of Licensing Race Moeting3 in Maryland Declared Illegal. Annapolis, lid.. ■atMruary 14. — In order to guard again* aa effort which, it in anticipated, will be ■i --nil- mi i|.-.-i in- racing in Baltimore County Illegal .1. ti. ground tbal the present system of baring thi judges i*T Ibe i Ircuit "nil award tUe 1 11 n -• i I* iiiM-. -:i ,iii:.: io ,al. Dr. Boweu lntn».ln ■ d la tb ll iim uf Delegates today a bill appointing :i racing to nmWfc ii r«r Ibe county. K. • ntlj iii" Circuit Court banded down a decision , .,; i ng the Uoad 1 . n n law of the county nucon stitutioiial, because i; imposed upon the court the ■.n,r of appointing ;i road commissioner. Tin-. urt declart-d, was outside of Ita Judicial pon ■ :■ mi ! ri-mlt : ■ ! the whole law void. As tin- pre* in law allows the court to award rae log licenses ii Baltimore County. If has been feared by friends of raring Ilia I some legal action might in- taken to prevent race meetings in the county. If I be present Legislature adjourns without providing ii new raring system for the county ii Is i and ■bat until some new law is pasaed there would be no racing, either at Wmllco of at the county Bain. Willie providing against such :i rontingeuc] the authors ai the bill base also attempted, so Dr. i: u n declares, to put racing in the county on i bigli plnue and surround it with safeguards which a i 1 1 sol make it nnaatlsfactory to the majority of the pei pl in the i oanty.
