The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-01-30
; ns9he GetIt mE9l1hts
CONTROLLERS REPORT.

Col. W. ]. Leonard, Comptroller of
the Treasury, has made his Annual Re-
port to the Governor of Maryland,
copy of which has been on our table
for several days, but which before we
have not had time to examine.
1t appears from the Report that the
total receipts into the Treasury during
the fiscal year ending September 3Oth,
1868, amounted to $4,135, 4O6. This
sum added to $l56, s3S remaining in the
Treasury at the end of the fiscal year
1867 makes total of 1922, 243 in the
Treasury the present fiscal year. The
disbursements during that period were
$3,S09,692, leaving balance in the
Treasury at the end of the last fiscal
year of $4s2,55l.
The Comptroller states that the prob
able receipts for the ensuing year will
amount to 100000 while the dis
bursements will reach $2,267, 900, leav-
ing deficit of $267, 900 to be paid out
of back receipts Of the Treasury
The oyster feet to protect that in
terest in the Chesapeake and its oys-
ter bearing tributaries is to consist of
an iron steamer which is under con-
struction. The Comptroller sums UP
his statement Of the enterprise in the
following words: II confess that l
have little faith in the success of the
enterprise, believing the expenses will
absorb all the receipts"
The debt of the State on which in
terest has to be provided amounts to
$11,112,19O The debt has been in
creased within the last year by the sale
of bonds of the defence Loan" in the
sum of $1,924,913. This is pretty
round sum to pay for the defence ofthc
State in time of profound peace. If
it cost this sum to defend the State un-
der rebel rule in time of peace, what
would it have cost had it been in the
same hands during the rebellion?
The assessed value of the property
of the State is $464,14s,O46, and the
total levy for State purposes on this
amount is 10 cents on the 500
The balance in the Treasury 30th of
September, 1868, to the credit of Public
Schools, was $204,SO5, of which sum
$ll5,9 1854 have since been paid out for
their use among the counties and to the
city of Baltimore.
The Comptroller complains that auc-
ton dues are not paid by the Auction
GERS of Baltimore city, and says, Many
persons in Baltimore city are daily and
weekly engaged in the business of
Auctioneering, that pay no license and
make no returns"
The amount received from Inspec-
tor of Grain" during the year, was
$7,sOs, and the salaries and expenses
paid in connection Herewith, $7,s4s,
showing deficit of nearly six thousand
dollars, compared with the receipts of
1861. From inspectors of Flour
the enormous sum of 1881 was re-
ceived in excess of fees These three
last mentioned sources of revenue dem
onstrate pretty clearly the status of
Democratic officeholdcrs in Baltimore
city. But the most interesting chapter
in the Report is the Militia. For this
piece of "sojering" of Governor
Swann's, in time of profound peace,
there was paid during the year, exclu-
sive of the salaries ofthe Adjutant Gen
eral, his Clerks and the State Armorcrs,
$2S7,66l. The Comptroller remarks
in reference to this militia force,
ain many, and in fact most of the
counties, there is no organization what
ever, and the only end accomplished is
the enrolment and COLLECTION OF COM
MUTATION" And this he might have
further added was the substantial pur-
pose of the law: to collect two dollars
head from every man liable to bear
arms to go into pockets of set of Cop
perhead politicians whose duty it was
to keep up the organization of that cor
rupt party. Now if we include fines,
salaries, and other exactions, the cost
Of this military movement of Governor
Swami and his rebel cohorts did not
fall short of 100000, a sum drawn
from the pockets ofthe people to crafty
the lovers of parade in fine clothes and
gold lacs-=a salA equal to 8 cents of
direct tax on the 500 of assessable
property of the State; nearly as much
as the whole tax to pay the interest on
the Public Debt of the State under Re
publican rule Verify this report shows
that the frogs have snapped King Log
for King Stork, in changing Rcpubli-
can for Rebel rule in Maryland