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MARYLAND. 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



NATIVITY AND COLOR. 



Included in the colored population of the 

 State are five Chinese, one Japanese, and 

 eleven Indians. 



The receipts of the State Treasury during the 

 fiscal year ending September 30th were $2,- 

 007,686.77 ; the expenditures, $2,050,869. The 

 balance on hand at the beginning of the year 

 was $556,208.99 ; at the close, $513,026. The 

 largest items in the tables of receipts were the 

 following: Dividends on preferred stock Bal- 

 timore and Ohio Railroad, $58,11(5.94; divi- 

 dends on the Washington Branch Baltimore 

 and Ohio Railroad, $55,000, and interest on 

 Baltimore and Ohio bonds, $21,960 ; oyster- 

 house licenses, $107,154; licenses to traders, 

 $186,982 ; brokers' licenses, $26.496 ; marriage 

 licenses, $26,668; oyster-dredgers' licenses, 

 $18,606 ; Northern Central Railway, $90,000; 

 bount} r taxes, $245,845; public-school tax, 

 $454,386 ; taxes on commissions of executors' 

 bonds, $81,831; on collateral inheritances, 

 $111,467; on gross receipts of railroad com- 

 panies, $59,836. The total amount of State 

 taxes was $840,628.53, of which the city of 

 Baltimore paid $395,605 41. 



The Constitution of Maryland contains the 

 following provision: 



All civil officers appointed by the Governor and 

 Senate shall be nominated to the Senate within fifty 

 days from the commencement of each regular session 

 of the Legislature, and their term of office, except in 

 cases otherwise provided for in this Constitution, shall 

 commence on the first Monday of May next ensuing 

 their appointment ? and continue for two years (unless 

 removed from office), and until their successors, re- 

 spectively, qualify according to law ; but the term ot 

 office of inspectors of tobacco shall oommence on the 

 first Monday of March next ensuing their appoint- 

 ment. 



The tobacco-inspectors appointed by the 

 Governor in February were not confirmed by 

 the Senate until April 5th, and then it was 

 claimed by the incumbents of the offices that 

 the appointment could not take effect until 

 March, 1881. This view was upheld by the 



Attorney-General, but in May the Superior 

 Court granted a mandamus in favor of the 

 new appointees. An appeal was taken, which 

 has not yet been decided. 



The one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of 

 the founding of the city of Baltimore was cele- 

 brated from the 10th to the 15th of October. 

 On Sunday, the 10th, the demonstration par- 

 took of a religious character in the churches. 

 On Monday there was a grand procession, made 

 up largely of representations of trades. and in 

 dust-rial interests. It was ten miles long, and 

 occupied five hours in passing a given point. 

 On Tuesday there was a parade of the Masonic 

 order and of school-children, and a banquet of 

 the Historical Society in the evening, with ad- 

 dresses and an ode. Wednesday was devoted 

 to a military display, in which organizations 

 from different portions of the country took 

 part. On Thursday there was another parade, 

 of which national societies and benevolent asso- 

 ciations were a conspicuous feature. The site 

 of Baltimore was first surveyed in the early 

 part of 1730, authority for laying out the town 

 having been granted by the Maryland Assem- 

 bly the year previous. The original town oc- 

 cupied sixty acres, purchased of Charles and 

 Daniel Carroll for forty shillings an acre. In 

 1750 it was a little village surrounded by a 

 board fence, with two entrances. Jones's Town 

 had been united with it in 1745, and in 1796, 

 when it was incorporated as a city, Fell's 

 Point was also included. The census of 1791 

 showed a population of 13,758, of whom 1,255 

 were slaves. It was a place of considerable 

 commercial importance at the close of the last 

 century. The present population is 332,191, 

 and it ranks seventh among the cities of the 

 country. 



MASSACHUSETTS. The regular annual 

 session of the Legislature of Massachusetts be- 

 gan on the 7th of January, and came to a close 

 on the 24th of April, having occupied ninety- 

 nine days in actual proceedings. The amend- 

 ment to the Constitution proposed at the session 

 of 1879, which provided for biennial elections 

 and sessions of the Legislature, failed to receive 

 the necessary two-thirds vote in the House ol 

 Representatives. The final vote on the motion 

 to pass the resolution submitting it was 140 to 

 77. The question of biennial elections was 

 then divided, and two separate amendments 

 were proposed, one providing that the Gov- 

 ernor and executive officers shall be elected 

 for terms of two years, beginning with the 

 election of 1882, and the other that members 

 of the two branches of the Legislature shall be 

 chosen biennially. These propositions will re- 

 quire the approval of the Legislature in 1881, 

 before they can he submitted to a vote of the 

 people, and they make no reference to the sul 

 ject of legislative sessions. The amendmei 

 proposed in 1879, declaring that no Massachu- 

 setts soldier or sailor in the late war shall be 

 disfranchised on account of being a pauper, 

 was so modified as to remove the restriction 



