The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-02-17
Report Of the COMPTROLLER.

The receipts into the Treasury for the fiscal
year ending 3Oth September, 1864, appears from
the report to be So, 23s, 3O2 AT, of which $685.
Act of Assembly of 1864, for the encouragement
of enlistments, and creating fund for the pay
ment of bountes to volunteers, leaving the true
amount collected from the ordinary sources of
revenue to be $l,7l2, 1T Al, and showing de-
fciency in the revenue, as compared with that
from similar sources in the preceding year, of
Sl57,a8S Is. Total amount of cash in the Treas
ury on the Both of September, 1864, ST., O2O, 354-
10. The payments under the act of 1864 to vol
unteers, from the 22d of March last to the Both
September, 1864, amounted to ST., 2sl, 1868. co.
The whole amount of the sinking fund amounted
on the 30th of September, 1863, to SIS, 664, 1884,
So, and the amount cancelled under the act of
1864 was 81, 500, O74.5l.
In the Free School Fund for the present year
there is a deficiency of $40, 955 so, as compared
with the year Immediately preceding. There
has been no receipts from the Annapolis and Elk
Ridge Railroad Company the past year. The
receipts from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company for the fiscal year ending 3Oth Septem-
Der, 1864, amounted to $4l2, 9O2. 90. The North
ern Central Railway is represented as having
paid its interest according to the terms of the
mortgage of 1855, except a sum withheld as
claimed by Pennsylvania. The report states that
the Susquehanna Canal Company paid during
the year $50, 1000, but is largely in arrears for
interest.
The Comptroller estimates the receipts for the
fiscal year ending Both September, at ST., $50 900,
and that this amount will be exceeded by dis.
bursements in the sum of $525, 900. The atten-
ton of the Legislature is called to the taxes in
arrears from the city of Baltimore, which are
stated to be, principal and interest, 1928, 1884,
55. The receipts from the Inspection of Tobac-
co for the fiscal year 1864, is stated to be $l4,-
643.9l, which is $l3,452.77 less than was re-
ceived from this source for 1868. The salaries
of the Inspectors, by the increase from ST. 200 to
$4,000, by the act of 1884, for part of that year,
made the payment for this item alone ST. 99l .s5.
There was received during the fiscal year from
the inspection of Grain, Sc, 435 go which amount
10 sidtcu " DC ibouhSieut I" pay tUt Inspector
salaries. There was due the Treasury, on the
30th September from the Clerks of Courts and
Registers of Wills, the sum of $40, 4s4.63. From
Sheriffs, $50, 800. 30 some of this amount has
been standing since 1895. From Incorporated
Institutions, about 100000; from sundry per-
sons 1874, 36799, and from the Colonization tax,
$s,O64.2l. The number of white volunteers
whose enlistment bounty has been paid, from the
22d March to 3oth September, 1864, is 1887;
amount of bounty paid them 1896, $50. From
the 22d of March to the 3Oth of September, 1864,
there were mustered into the service 963 free ne
gro volunteers; amount of bounty paid them
$780,
The Comptroller recommends number Of
alterations in laws relating to the revenue, many
OF which may he very necessary, but we have
not room to pursue the report farther.