The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-01-22
The Controllers Report.

Lie SOuptTUllcI'S hcpVIls
The Report of Comptroller Leenord for
tho fiscal year ending September 30, 1869,
shows the estimated receipts into the Treas
uryfor 1870 to be SO, 1913, $50. 90, and the ''pro
bable disbursements during the same period
based upon existing laws, will amount to
81, 2O1, $4,000; being s77,sOO in excess of
receipts" not a flattering exhibit by any
means to meet our Copperhead Legislature,
which will have to add Il few millions to
keep up the reputation of the party. The
last session gave away more than this sum
to private institutions, for purposes entirely
foreign to the business they We're sent to
the Capitol to transact. To help keep the
expenditure in excess of receipts. the
Comptroller reiterates to the Legislature
his former recommendation of a further
bounty of 800 to former owners of enlisted
slaves. 1t also appears by the Report that
several of the counties are in arrears in the
aggregate sum of IS, 064 due for Colonial
ton tax, and the Comptroller thinks it
"would be proper to remit all these several
sums to the counties owing them"
The militia business is costly bauble to
the State, or those parts of the State which
are pleased to play at "aojering.' For
this little Coppsrhead arrangement to
furnish Maryland with a military force,
composed mainly of Lees disbanded re-
cruits, there was paid out of the Treasury
of the State last year, $136,472.
Among the disbursements for educational
purposes bestowed upon private academies
and other institutions of learning, Cecil
county receives $500, which is bestowed
upon West Nottingham Academy, and SO
far as we have been able to learn, amounts
to q mere sinecure. Kent county, for
Washington College, Millington, and
Shrewsbury Academies, $4,000; Allegheny
county receives 81, 200; st. Mary's Female
Seminary, SO, 500; st. Johns College, An
napolis, $4,000; Agricultural College,
$780, and various other similar "endow-
ments" ranging from $400 mp to $1,000
and 81, 500.
The interest on tho Southern Relief
Fund" cost the people of Maryland last
year sc, 600, and to pay this annual interest
and provide sinking fund to wipe out the
principal when the bonds have matured,
the people of the State is taxed / cent on
every hundred dollars of their assessed
property. This Relief Fund = is debt
saddlad upon the State by the first Rebel
Legislature which gained the power after
the war, by voting a loan to raise money
for the men who had spread ruin and desc
lation in the South. The Union men
whom they prosecuted and hunted down
for upholding the Government, of course.
received none Of this relief fund, although
their wives ard little ones were brought to
the brink of starvation by the confiscation
and destruction of their property. Fol-
this :: Relief Fund - the people of Mary
land are saddled with an additional debt,
the Collectors of Cecil county paid into the
State Treasury last year on account ofthat
debt $60S, of the peoples money, and
this sum will have to be repeated yearly
until the debt is cancelled: a sum levied
upon the people for purposes of private char
ity, wholly foreign to the purpose for which
the Legislature was chosen. and entirely
authority. The total sum paid by the
State for this tax last year was SIG, G2e. "a.
The amounts received by Mr.. D. Scott,
Clerk of tie Circuit Court of Cecil County,
last year and paid into the State Treasury
were, for marriage licenses, SSH; traders
licenses, s3,47s,04; ordinaries' 1, 34S.T
traders liquor licenses $306.30; oyster
house licenses, s1,337.95: hawkers anf
pedlars' licenses, s409.31; race and fishery
licenses, $11 40; brokers' licenses, $500;
S71.e5; on civil commissions, $20.S0; fines
and forfeitures, $23.3s: amounting in the
aggregate to So, 1920.
The Register of Wills, Mr. r. d. lamar.
received and paid into the State Treasury.
during tho same period, taxes on commits
sions of Executors and Administrators.
s1,46S.55; on collateral inheritances.
$359O9; total, s1,7a7.63.
Z. W. Janney, late Sheriff. paid over fol
fines and forfeiturcs, s223.50.
this county, for one year from November
ed, 1867, amounted to s2,52o.10, from
which sum the expenses of the Office being
deducted, for clerk hire, 81, $780, stationary
fuel, &C., $2Ss.94, leave balance for tn.
chief clerk of s421.1G, not very heavy
sum by any means.
The office fees received by the Register
of Wills from the 23d of November, 1867,
for one year, amounted to S22lG.4G.
The States Attorney, Noble T. Bddle.
Esq, received for one year, from January
LIST, 1868, the sum of s391.65. 4 fat Office
is that of the States Prosecuting At
torney.
Amos Alexander, late Sheriff, received
for one year, from December 1st, 1867,
S2,325.00. No expenses given.
No reports from Notary Public's. No
report from the Crier of the Court
Port Deposit is Z" some" on Lumber In
spectors. From May LIST, 1869, Richard
Thomas Inspector of Lumber at that place,
received $153s7; John W. Mccullough,
81, 503.711; G.. W. Stackhouse, 1850; Nm
Phillips, S2S1.12; J. II. Cameron, $e22. SO
r. NJ. Brown, $471.G9; Jas. G. Burlin
S1O6.95; Henry Whitelock, S53l.G9; John
Duffy, $11294.
The Fifteenth Amendment.
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