The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1897-01-16
First Annual Report Of Comptroller
Robert P. Graham.
TREASURY IN GOOD CONDITION.
Receipts SiXty-Five thousand Dollars
Less Than in the Preceding Year.
Heavy Deficit in the Free School,
Book Fund--AmOunt PrOvid-
ed for This Purpose NOT
Sufficient.

The total receipts during the fiscal year
aggregated %, 15G, ,S75. GA. to which sum must
be added the balance in the treasury proper
September. 1895, of :70i, ,56S 10 and cash to
the credit of the funds account OF - 900 .006
making the total cash amount IN the treasury
for this period S3,S63, ,i43 49, This sum ex-
ceeds that Of the year previous by S5i7 ,G3l. 55
which increase is shown by the issuance of
the tive loans authorized by chapters lGi and
l6G of the acts of 1896 known rs the Insane
Asylum and Penitcntiary loans. The amount
OF these loans, S6l2,72i, if deducted from the
receipts for the year, would show us ordinary
receipts - 81 .09l Ga, less by 500 1852. .45 than
the year previous, and less by 562 0l2 Oh than
in 1894. This loss is largely explained by
reference to the amount paid from the col
lcctors Of tnX"s i'll the several counties and
The city If Baltimore. For the year 1895
there Has received from this source $685.
4l1.1S. whilr the year 1896 yielded only SSH
G!0.35. or S,G3, 100 SO less, yet the amount paid
by stock companies for the same period ex-
ccedcd in 1896 that of 1895 by ;245s3 20.
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