The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-01-04
A F0reta ste Of what May be EN-.
peCted.

Report to the Legislature, and it unfulds q
| chapter of expend lures, and recommend, II
system Of public money spending which will,
if pursued soon grind the people TO the earth
| and bankrupt the State hopelessly
| The total receipts into the Treasury for
the year 1867, ending September 30,h, were
S2,3622,s SIG, while the expenditures amount.
cd TO S2,5.S, sa5. leaving deficit Of 1910.
$40 which had to be supplied by moneys in
| the Treasury at the close of the fiscal year
Of 1856 The Comptroller estimates the re.
ceirts of the Treasury during the present
fiscal year at : 1926. 900 aud the disbursc.
msnts at $l,913 200, or sl5l 900 moro than
the estimated receipts.
| The total funded debt OF the State is ) 10,
sol, 500, against which the State owns pro
! ductive stock and sinking fund sufficient to
cover nearly the entire amount Of her in
debtedness. The State deb. during the last
four years under Republican rule. during
which, large sums were necessarily expend
| ed in bouuties, was Increased but S6u1 900
The pew assessment Of the State increases
| the taxable property S2l2, l5l, 1898. Not
wlthstanding this increase Of taxable pro-
perty--which only lacks little over SIS.
600, 900 of being double the amouu, of tax.
able property on which assessments were
heretofore made-the Comptroller believes
| that 1t will require considerable economy
at the fashionable Democratic mode ofmak
ing appropriations, 10 make the presen.
lavv ff II "a r,
poses on the basis Of the new assessment
meet the expenditures OF the present year
In plain terms the present Democratic party
in power propose to levy tax for State
purposes equal to forty cents on the hundred
dollars on the basis of the old assessment
In order to meet expenditures in time OF!
peace. Just double the amount the Rery' :,
lican party expended in tine Of war w;,
bounIies and extraordinary exp ,nses tc
meet.
The tax payers will very ap. >iously INQUIRE
how this extra twenty ceD'.s on the hundred
doiiars--or what ia tho same thing, this lev,
OF twenty cents on the extra SEALS, 9os
OF asBessab'e pr' per,y-~i- to be expended,
The Comp'roo II answers in his recommau.
ds'oh lot the opening of the whole subjcc;
OIL INC Payment of bouEties, and to provide
Tor an adjustment and equalization duringthe
years OF the war volunteers; and drafted
iuen tor lSGl-2, who have not received any
bounty, the payment of an additional 800
to former owners of enlisted saYes and to
the slaves lhcmssl les, the reimburse of those
VINO paid Communication, or who furnished
substitutes, aud also the payment Of bounty
70 former owners Of slaves whose slaves ere
ENLISTED IN, Or er,dissd to, other States. -
lbs scheme Of whipping the old boy rount!
the stamp 70 tax the people to pay former
slave owners. would cost the State millions,
the umeunt Of which cannot be estimated;
as every slave owner would feel himself ms
ilhed IN trum9ing Up an account against the
State, uuder this bounty" head, that would
cover the whole estimated value Of his lost
property in Slaves. And this is the first in.
staiiment OF Democratic tax laying to pay
for emancipated slaves which We are invited
20 consider. Farmers, and hard fsted work.
ing men of Cecil, have you forgotten that
Tie Wig warned you that this thing was in
store for you, il ever you listened to the
siren song Of tho Copperheads. Double
your former State Tux is proposed to. be
levied the first year Of the new regime
great outcry against the Republican
par'y was raised by these plunderers, OF
cxtravagance, when necessity compelled an
eXpendiiurc of four millions far hnupt;cv
in the midst Of dreadful war on the gov
ernment; now in times OF peace the rebels
propose to tax the people untold millions
under tho head of bounties,' TO Ray for
emancipated slaves! How do you like your
new found masters?