Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1862-01-09
MESSAGE OF GOVERNOR HICKS
TO
TO THE LEGISLATURE OF MARYLANI

Governor Hicks Transmitted the following
Message to the Legislature of Maryland on
Thursday last:
Gentlemen Of the Senate and House of Delegates:
! The earnest devotion of the best interests of
bur STATE which has been evidenced by you dur
ing the recent special session of your honorable
bodies renders it almost unnecessary for ME to
make to you the usual formal communication
at the opening of the regular session.
Your prompt assumption of your proportion
of the National tax is, of itself, sufficient guar
antee that the other subjects which must engage
your attention will speedily be elaborated and
put into practical shape. Necessarily, the in
tricate nature and numerous and delicate details
of those subjects will require considerable time
for their consideration and perfection. That
they will be thoroughly examined in all their
upon by you, | have abundant evidence from
what know of the labors already bestowed
upon them by your committees.
Such care, such patient labor, are indispen-
sable at this time. For the credit and honor of
our State, we all sincerely hope that no mistake
may be made; but that every act of your hon.
orable bodies may be as full and as perfect as
possible TO this consummation l earnestly
commend you.
The condition of the finances of the State at
the close of the fiscal year has, understand,
been fully made known to you by the Comp
troler of the Treasury department.
From the report of that officer to this depart
ment. for the fiscal year ending 30th September,
1860, herewith submitted, it appears that the
receipts into the Treasury were $1,048, 3S9.67,
which added to the balance in the Treasury as
Of Goth. September, 1859, shows the aggregate
for the year to have been $1,561 ,63O.83
The disbursements during the same period
amounted to the sum of one million three hun
Adred and six thousand and forty-three dollars
and eight cents, ISL, BOG, O43 .O83 exceeding the
revenue which accrued and was received during
the same period by the large sum Of four hun
dred and eleven thousand two hundred and
thrty-one dollars and eighty weight cents, SAIL
2S1S8) This fact owes its existence solely to
the reckless and prodigal expenditures of the
Legislature of 1860.
/ transmit herewith communication from
the Secretary of the Interior, in reference to the
new appertionment of members of the House Of
Representatives in the Congress of the United
States From it you will perceive that the
number of representatives from this State has
been reduced to five and that, therefore, it viii
be your duty to divide the State into the requi-
site NUMBER OF congressional DlStrlctS. CTauS'
NIT. also, statement from the same department
in regard to the population of our State, which
will be found of valuein the labor Of forming
the new districts.
l herewith transmit a copy of the joint reso'
linton of Congress to amend the Constitution o
the United States; approved March 2, 1861
I submitted the same to the Legislature at it,
special sessioncin Frederick city; and believe
it received action in one branch thereof. But i
was never finally acted upon, and deem it my
duty to transmit it to you, and to urge the pro
nriety of giving it your prompt attention.
The National Sanitary Commission, at meet
ing held at Washington on the 18th of Septem
SION urge the adoption, on the part Of the sever
| Il State Legislatures Of uniform system o
| uiefi}ical examination for military service"
copy Of this resolution has been forward; t
1.-The reports of the commissioners on the par
Of Maryland tos ascertain and define the south
eaetcrn and northwestern boundaries between