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company held by the State for san equal a.
mount of the bonds of this State held by said
company, Including $685., 800 of the ode
fence loan," issued under chapter Is of 1864,
as authorized by section 8, art. IL, Constitu-
ton of 1861 in the sum Of $1,103. .461 "a.
By this decrease, however, there is cores
bonding reduction of the States productive
assets. 1t will be seen from these statements
that the State, by judicious disposition OF
her assets, could liquidate her entire indebt-
edness and have a large surplus in the Trea-
sury.
ASSESSMENT AND LEVY.
The amendment of 1868, chap. 126, to the
assessment acts of 1866 and 1867 reduces the
value of the assessed property OF the State
from $492, 1858, ,472 to $464, 148 ,046, diff
ference of $28, sos, 1926. 1t is presumed there
will be no further legislation on this assess
ment, and that the present will be tue basis
on which the taxes of the State will be levied
until there shall be another general assess
ment ordered. The total levy for State pur-
poses is nineteen cents on the one hundred
dollars, amounting to 1881, $50 20.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The balance in the Treasury at the close OF
I the fiscal year to the credit of public schools
was S2O4 ,8O4 "a, of which som $115.953 &C
has since been disbursed to the counties and
Baltimore city.
BOUNTY
The sum of 1859, ISL % has been expen-
ded in the payment of bounties during the
fiscal year.
The total amount paid for
bounties, less the sums re-
funded, since the passage of
the first bounty act, in 1864.
is $4,s44,9 1925 90
For salaries of officers and
other expenses, 1859 81
For moneys refunded by boun.
ty and county commission
ers, and for claims paid in
error TO-, ,23O 60
Total pumber Of men
| paid bounty, 1889
Total number Of claims
of owners paid, 1853
+ There were on fle in this Office, at the close
of the fiscal year, bounty claims to the num-
Der of 6,485, exclusive Of the claims paid,
which, upon examination, are found to be as
| ( flows: ......--.-.
Claims undoubtedly good and entitled to
bounty, 1880; claims for which no official
rolls are returned, 1910; claims contested,
principally for heirs of deceased soldiers
$50; claims certainly not good, 662; claims
of drafted men and others, who furnished
substitutes, not credited to ti1ecall of Decem-
|ba i9,~4Se4, i sos. Total, z; ;4ou. ts~s+'
Probably out of the number without rolls,
contested, &C., enough may be found entitled
to swell the aggregate of good claims to $500,
Il L. hat h,
enlisted for one and two years are entitled
under the act of 1867, the number of good
claims may reach $500, which, with those
already paid, will make about two=6fths Of
the entire credits to the State during the war.
| Quite number of claims have been sent
in since September l, 1868, which, owing to
the limit for making application, under Sec
| 9, chap. 235 of 1868, cannot be examined
with the claims filed prior to that date for
payment.
The impression seemed to prevail that, TN
der the act of 1867, chapter 872, all men who
furnished substitutes between April l and
December 18, 1864, were entitled to bounty,
but the Attorney General sustains me in the
opinion that, unless they were credited to the
call of the President for troops of December
10, 1864, they are not entitled under said act
and repeated inquiries at the War Depart
ment, in Washington, have established the
fact beyond question that no substitute was
credited to that call who entered the service
before December 10, 1864. Since the close
of the fiscal year of September, 1865, owe,
2O47 names have been returned through the
Adjutant Generals of this State and of the
United States that are clearly shown to be
entitled to bounty under the acts of 1864 ano
1865.
BALANCES DUE.
| The balance of direct bounty, public schoo
and Southern relief taxes due from collector:
and others of the several counties and the city
of Baltimore is $552, $3.50 Is for the year 1868
State taxes due from 1841 to 1857 inclusive
$705, ,408 25.
/ AUCTION DUTIES.
By the provision of section 127, article
of public local laws relating to Baltimore city
the proceeds arising from auction duties t,
the amount of 100000 are to be returned t,
the city. The duties returned to the Treasu
ry never reach that sum, and unless the law
are more rigidly enforced, they never will.-
Many persons in Baltimore city are daily ant
weekly engaged in the business of auctoneer
ling that pay no license and make no returns
The attention of the States Attorney for Bal
timore city has been called to the facts.
INSPECTIONS.
The amount received from inspectors O
grain during the fiscal year was $7,808 1s
aud the salaries and expenses paid in connec
ton Herewith $7,S48 At, showing a defci
Of nearly $4,000, compared with the receipt
Of 1867. This partly arises from two cause
the shortness of the crops and the charg
by weight instead of measure, as formerly.
The receipts from inspections of tobacco
during the last fiscal year amount to $45, 81:
81, showing deficit Of SO, 1877 80, compare'
with the previous year. Amount paid 70
salaries of inspectors, insurance, ground-ren
and auction room $l8,534 so, leaving to tn
credit of the tobacco fund" $27,378 OIL
The short Maryland crop and the large guam
tity of Pennsylvania and Ohio tobacco still
held in store the inspectors assign as a reaso
for the diminished receipts from this source.
From inspectors of flour" the sum of ST.
. 81 has been received as an excess of fees.
have used every exertion in my power
make this Office source of revenue, withou
, success thus far. I see no reason to chang
, the opinion expressed to the Legislature on
J year ago, and still hope that something ma
: be done to prevent the absorption Of the en-