The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-02-09
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FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE CITY GOV
! ERNMENT-REPORT OF THE REGISTER.
| From the annual statement of the condition of
the city treasury during the year 1865, as drawn
up by the Register, John A. Thompson, ESQ. it
appears that the receipts of the past year have been
two million seven hundred and thirty-four thousand
| three hundred and seventy-three dollars and sixty
SIX cents; which, added to hundred and six
| thousand eight hundred and siXtv-six dollars and
elghtyfour cents, the balance in hand on January
l, 1858, make total of two million eight hundred
and fortyone thousand hundred and forty dollars
and httyeight cents. The disbursements for the
same period were two million six hundred and
thirtyeight thousand fty-six dollars and fourteen
| cents-eavng balance in the Treasury on the 3lst
OF December, of two hundred and three thousand
one hundred and eighty -four dollars and forty-four
cents.
This balance is made up in part of money receiy-
ed from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
to pay the interest on the give million loan" and
OF Communication fees on foreign passengers These
and other payments due January l, exhibit large
deficiency at the beginning of the fiscal year. and
may be stated as follows:
For interest on the Give million oanp $74 1872 70
Gommutation fees on foreign passengers.... 5454 90
water Board. 46796H
jan STOCK l966S4
Interest on Jail stock. 4633 CT
Interest on lone million loan' to Pittsburg
. and connesville Railroad Company...... 100000
One quarters salaries to teachers of public
p,,Gl schools ;.:;................ 225ooOo
Bills payable for gas and oil o............. 109583s
s29lOss 2s
Deduct balance in bank. ........... 2O3l8440
and the deficit on the lst of January 1859 is nine
ty thousand, eight hundred and eghty-three dollars
and eighty-eight cents.
LOAN TO THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD Company
of the Give million loan, S4O2 ,965.42 Eave
sued balance of $4l ,085.08.
The sinking fund for the redemption of the loan
has increased during the year eighty thousand six
hundred and three dollars and ninety-nne cents
and exhibits total of six hundred and twenty-niue
! thousand two hundred and seventy-six dollars and
sixty-one cents.
JAIL STOCK
vi the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
stock authorized for the erection of JAIL one hun
dred and hty-four thousand four hundred and ffty-
nve dollars and eighty light cents have been issued
The remainder will be issued during the spring and
summer as the building progresses
The "Jail stock sinking fund" now amounts to
Twelve thousand, nine hundred and seventy-four
dollars and five cents; and an annual tax hereto
lore authorized of two cents on the one hundred
oolars OF assessaoie property, will absorb the prin-
cple at maturity.
LOAN TO THE PIrTsBURG AND CoENELsvILLE RAILROAD
COMPANY.
The sinking fund for the redemption of the ''One
n0.
three hundred and seventy dollars and ten cents
CITY STOCK DEBT.
The city stock debt may be classified by two gem
eral items, viz:
Stock issued for miscellaneous purposes 400 GO
Stock issued for internal improv 1858 2l58 80
$685., ,ls4 90
debt is as follows:
City stock bearing interest s247 700 IS
Cash on hand for investment ...' % '253 az
Ground llv tn IQc aF
Annual appropriation, ordinance No. 6, revised
ordinances 1885, S.....................,... 6OO0.00
In addition to which the city holds against the
internal Improvement debt three million five hum
dred thousand dollars of Railroad stock
WATER STOCK.
The amount of stock issued for the supply of
water is So, ,O93, $3.50. The sinking fund applica
BILE to its redemption consists of
water STOCK Sc 376 81
and annual of onehaf cent on the one hundred
dollars of assessable property
RECAPTULATGoN OF THE STOCK DEBT.
FOR miscellaneous purposes .......... S40O eI9 66
FOR internal improvements. ........... 1903 2l5 80
% III 0t i'ouse l6O754 q
For supply OF water 2O93 ISL 90
For new jail 1544 8S
r ror Que moh ah''''''.''''........... OO0OO0OO
For five million loan ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1858 9l4 90
s18,72I,4187
REcAPIrULATIoN OF SINKING FUNDS.
Glt! STOCK sinking fund $3.50 953 SO
water department. t........,............. 7,145.57
JAIL. 1297405
One million loan. l3,370l0
Five million loan NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 629 1861
$685., ,2lg86
TRANSFER DEPARTMENT.
The Register states that the operations of this
department are greatly embarrassed by the present
system OF stock issues bearing fractional parts of
doler, and tens of dollars. Your special attention
IS accordingly asked to some practicable method of
preventing them as far possible in the future
This can be effected, it is thought, by authorizing
the Register and Commissioners of Finance, to
make all new issues of stock in integral amounts
only within the limits referred to-, and to purchase
for the sinking fund, within the same limits, all
fractional parts of stocks presented for transfer
vision of the ordinance of 1858, entitled can Or
dinance to aid the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road
Company" that the Company should bear a pro
portonate part OF the clinical charges of the trans
fer department.
1t is further suggested that the fiscal year should
close the 2lst of October, to allow of time to make
an accurate statement of the annual receipts and
disbursements, and that sinking fund of one cent
on the hundred dollars of aSsessable property be
established for the. redemption of the Court House
stock
DIRECT TAX
The amount required from direct tax after al
lowing the estimates of the Collector and Auditor
as well as supposed receipts from other sources
during the current year, will be one million fifty
one thousand eight hundred and forty-tw0 dollars
and tiftv-ive cents.
1t has often been asserted by the Buffalo papers,
truthfully, we presume that Buffalo is the greatest
grain market in the world. 1t may then seem
strange that ere mid-winter is reached, the Buffa
lonans have to 60 out, as did the children of
Jacob, to buy corn. We are told that Buffalo
agents have been in the towns up the Genesee Val
ley, on the railroads, purchasing corn, oats and
even barley for that city. There is probably half
a million of bushels of wheat in the elevators at
Buffalo, but other grains are short, and consumers
who have hitherto relied upon deposits made there
| from the west, in the fall, are compelled to 90
eastward into the interior for suppes.-Rochester
| Union.
| The American Bank Note Company are about to
make public an important Improvement in the
general design ofbank notes, which will efectuay
guard against that species of fraudulent paper
known as altered bank notes. By the new patent
no bank note can be successfully altered so as to
| impose upon the community. Several of the prom
inent Banks have adopted this new style, which
will work complete revolution in the appearance
of bank notes. Philadelphia Ledger.
| EASTERN SHORE RAILROAD CoMPANY.-0ver two
| thousand shares of the capital stock having been
subscribed this company is to be organized at
Princess Ann, Nd, on the 22d inst.
young man just 10 years old eloped with his
step-mother from Bloomington, Illinois, last week.
The father was absent on business at he tima