The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-01-11
The Message Of the Governor.

The message of Governor Swami being too
long for our space, we shall content ourselveg
with reference to some Of the most important
points
He announces his satisfaction at the prosper
Gus condition of the Treasury, and states the re-
ceipts the for year ending September the 3oth,
to have been So, 1916, 507 .94, which, added 10 the
balance in the treasury on the Goth September,
1865, will make the aggregate in the Treasury
during the fiscal year, 3,75s, 469.94. The dis
bursements during the same period were $3,-
390,6l7.5s, leaving balance of $685., SIG. &c.
The balance to the credit of the School Pund is
stated to be 81 ,59s.77, and that of the Sinking
Fund, $238, 76l.7l.
The disbursements of the Stnte on account Of
the war, are set down at $4 2l9, 47oO2. The
public debt of the State, us Of October the
lst 1866, is $40, 72O sOO.2l. The productive
capital of the State is estimated at $40, 100 80o-
81, and the unproductiye assets at $ls, 0l7,-
S42.67.
The attention of the Legislature is called TO
the need ofsuitable buildings in the city of R,l-
tmore for State purposes, and their necessity
urged. The removal of the Police Commission
ers of the city Of Baltimore, and the causes there
for, with suggestions in regard to providing by
law for an election of Mayor and City Council,
and the present time declared to be opportune to
revise the whole system of laws relating to the
said city.
The message then treats of the interests of the
city of Baltimore, reviews the subject fimlngra-
ton, and the militia laws Of the State. The in
ternal improvements in which the State is in ter
ested, appear to promise more than formerly
Within the past year the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad has paid into the Treasury $76O OS9,-
76. Both the Northern Central Railroad Com
pany and the Tide Water Canal Company have
promptly paid their interest to the State
Ola Constitutional Convention the Governor
says;
4 convention of the people Of the State to re-
wise the present constitution will be advisable ut
IN early day. Some of its leading provisions
We're prompted, us is well known, by the war
then raging and the confused condition of our
national affairs. Happily the settlement of all
these differences renders their retention as part
of our organic law no longer a matter of policy
or necessary precaution. Apart from this, how
ever, there are measures OF practical reform
which should not be lost sight OF, in the new ca
reer upon which we have entered. III my action
4Ron the Snegft E2A viii BE- prfsarfS9s e EssA Gst
You will be content TO resort 10 tho power con-
ferred by the constitution upon the Legislature
in making such changes as you may deem most
urgent, or refer the whole subject IL ihe people,
TO be decided by them. ...
-. In discharging the duties incumbent upon You
in this trying crisis of our national affairs, gen.
tlemen of the Senate and House of Delegates,
trust that the past differences will be buried, and
that the paramount object of reunitins our dis
tracted and bleeding country may be uppermost
in your deliberations.
The obligations of party must be subordnated
to the more sacred claims growing ont Of a COM
mon origin and q common nationality and those
who had been brothers in the past should strive
to extinguish, rather than rekindle anew the
smouldering fires of alienation and strife
Believing, as do, that my fellow-citizens of
Maryland, and Of the whole South, with few ex-
ceptions, whatever their former antecedents, de-
sire now to cooperate cordially in the work OF
restoration by arecognition of the old flag, as a
renewed pledge OF restored brotherhood, we
should be ready to receive the approaches OF all
such in spirit of kindness.