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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (MARYLAND.) 



cars on business done wholly within the State. 

 The collateral inheritance tax was raised from 2$ 

 to 4 per cent. 



The State Board of Agriculture was abolished, 

 and the office of Commissioner of Agriculture was 

 created. The incumbent is to be elected by the 

 Legislature for two years, and to receive a salary 

 of $1,500. The Legislature elected A. W. Gilman 

 the first Commissioner of Agriculture, his term to 

 begin Jan. 1, 1902. For the farmers' institutes 

 $3,000 was appropriated. 



An act to establish a State flag provides that 

 the flag " shall be buff, charged with the emblem 

 of the State, a pine-tree proper, in the center, 

 and the polar star, a mullet of five points, in blue 

 in the upper corner; the star to be equidistant 

 from the hoist and the upper border of the flag, 

 the distance from the two borders to the center 

 of the star being equal to about one-fourth of the 

 hoist. 



So many persons are killed every year by 

 hunters who mistake them for game that an act 

 was passed providing that any one wounding or 

 killing any human being in this way shall be 

 punished by imprisonment for not more than ten 

 years or by fine of not more than $1,000; and 

 any county attorney or sheriff failing to investi- 

 gate and prosecute in such a case is liable to a 

 fine .of not over $1,000 and removal from office. 

 This law seems to have failed of its purpose, since 

 the number of such accidents increased in 1901. 



Many new provisions were added to the game- 

 laws, and acts were passed relating to hunting 

 and fishing in special localities. 



The acts for the schooling of children in un- 

 organized townships, and for the conveyance of 

 pupils, were amended, as was also the act on 

 traveling libraries; and the truancy law was 

 made more stringent. 



The penalty for leaving camp-fires in woods 

 unextinguished was reduced from $100 to $50, 

 and a provision was added that half the fine 

 should go to the complainant. 



The appropriations were somewhat larger than 

 those for the preceding period, amounting to 

 $4,544,501.88. 



Efforts to have the prohibition question resub- 

 mitted were unsuccessful. 



Other acts and resolves were: 



Providing for voting by machines. 



For improvement of State roads. 



For taxing interest-bearing deposits in trust 

 and banking companies. 



Fixing the salaries of justices of the Supreme 

 Court at $4,000. 



Authorizing cities and towns to establish man- 

 ual-training schools. 



Providing for topographical and geological sur- 

 veys. 



For the revision and consolidation of the public 

 laws. 



Authorizing the representation of the State at 

 the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. 



Appropriating $1,500 each year as a fund for 

 the detection and arrest of criminals. 



Prescribing a penalty of fine not exceeding $500 

 or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both, 

 for delivering false or libelous statements to any 

 periodical and securing their publication. 



Authorizing the Androscoggin Railroad Com- 

 pany to convey its interests to the Maine Central 

 Company. 



Amending the law of 1887 to abolish imprison- 

 ment for debt except in case of fraud. 



To secure the preservation of testimony given 

 in trials for murder. 



For the assessment of a State tax for 1901 



amounting to $927,725.94, and an equal amount 

 for 1902. 



Making appropriations for the Penobscot and 

 Passamaquoddy tribes of Indians. 



Authorizing the compilation of the laws on sea 

 and shore fisheries; also of the insurance laws. 



MARYLAND, a Middle Atlantic State, one 

 of the original thirteen, ratified the Constitution 

 April 28, 1788; area, 12,210 square miles. The 

 population, according to each decennial census, 

 was 317,728 in 1790; 341,548 in 1800; 380,546 in 

 1810; 407,350 in 1820; 447,040 in 1830; 470,019 in 

 1840; 583,034 in 1850; 687,049 in 1860; 780,894 in 

 1870; 934,945 in 1880; 1,042,390 in 1890; and 

 1,188,044 in 1900. Capital, Annapolis. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, J. Walter 

 Smith; Secretary of State, Wilfred Bateman; 

 Comptroller, Joshua W. Hering; Treasurer, Mur- 

 ray Vandiver; Adjutant-General, John S. Saun- 

 ders; Attorney-General, Isidor Rayner; Superin- 

 tendent of Education, M. Bates Stephens; Com- 

 missioner of Insurance, Lloyd Wilkinson; Com- 

 missioner of Public Lands, E. Stanley Toadvin 

 all Democrats; Chief Judge of the Court of Ap- 

 peals, James McSherry; Associate Judges, David 

 Fowler, A. Hunter Boyd, Henry Page, I. Thomas 

 Jones, John B. Briscoe, Samuel D. Schmucker, 

 and James A. Pearce; Clerk, Allan Rutherford 

 all Democrats except Schmucker and Rutherford, 

 Republicans. 



The term of the State officers is four years; 

 they are elected in November of the years pre- 

 ceding the presidential elections, and take office, 

 the next January. The sessions of the Legisla- 

 ture are biennial, beginning in January of odd- 

 numbered years, and are limited to ninety days. 



Population. Charges having been brought 

 that the Federal census figures of 1900 had been 

 padded in some of the southern Maryland coun- 

 ties, a new census was taken in 3 of the counties, 

 which resulted in a reduction of the figures 

 originally given. A census was also taken by the 

 State government. The following is the popula- 

 tion of the State by counties, according to the 

 State census of 1901: Allegany, 53,304; Anne 

 Arundel, 34,791; Baltimore, 88,028; Baltimore 

 city, 517,035; Calvert, 9,963; Caroline, 16,792; 

 Carroll, 33,651; Cecil, 24,450; Charles, 16,602; 

 Dorchester, 28,293; Frederick, 51,639; Garrett, 

 17,386; Harford, 28,307; Howard, 16,276; Kent, 

 17,788; Montgomery, 29,155; Prince George, 28,- 

 325; Queen Anne, 18,586; St. Mary, 16,890; Som- 

 erset, 25,628; Talbot, 20,314; Washington, 44,491; 

 Wicomico, 22,908 ; Worcester, 20,805 ; total, 1,181,- 

 691. 



Finances. The amount received into the 

 State treasury proper during the fiscal year end- 

 ing Sept. 30, 1901, was $3,243,154.12. This, to- 

 gether with $849,885.16 in the treasury proper 

 Sept. 30, 1900, and $229,589.14 to the credit of the 

 fund's account, makes a total of $4,392,628.42. 

 The revenue in the fiscal year was $3,043,154.12. 

 There was a large increase in the tax on gross 

 receipts of corporations. There was received from 

 this source $361,125.75, against $275,240.98 of the 

 previous year. This amount, however, was not 

 the result of an increase in the usual tax for 

 1901, but represents the accumulated taxes for 

 several years of various railroad companies. Pay- 

 ment was resisted by the companies, but a com- 

 promise was eventually agreed upon. 



The disbursements for the year aggregated $3,- 

 120,626.37, being $359,907.89 less than in the pre- 

 vious year, notwithstanding the fact that a much 

 larger sum ($110,356.98) was carried to the sink- 

 ing-funds. The balance in the treasury proper 



