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was soon, however, again repaired. Notwith- 

 standing the repeated destructions of large por- 

 tions of this road by the enemy, during Us last 

 fiscal year it paid into the State Treasury two 

 dividends of three per cent, each on the stock 

 in the main stem of the road, and two other 

 dividends of four and a half per cent, each, on 

 the stock in the Washington branch. On ac- 

 count of capitation tax of passengers over the 

 latter branch, it also paid a sum which made 

 its aggregate payments into the State Treasury 

 $310,512.51, showing it to be one of the most 

 remunerative of the State's investments. 



The State assumed the payment of the Na- 

 tional Tax of August 5th, 1861, and borrowed 

 $173,587 to aid in this payment. It was nut 

 needed for the purpose, and the whole was re- 

 turned to the creditors with interest, a few 

 months afterward. 



The condition of the State Treasury at the 

 close of 1863, is thus reported by the Gover- 

 nor : " The receipts and disbursements for 

 three years reduced to the receipts and dis- 

 bursements on ordinary account, present the 

 following results : 



RECEIPTS. 



Receipts for 1861 $960,813.08 



Receipts for 1862 1,449,976.12 



Receipts for 1863 1,437,075.39 



DISBURSEMENTS. 



Disbursements for 1861 . . . i $1,046,356.41 



Disbursements for 1862 1,120,550.37 



Disbursements for 1863 953,681.91 



" The gratifying result of all the Treasury ope- 

 rations is that at the end of the fiscal year 1863 

 with no new debt contracted with more 

 than $100,000 of the old extinguished, and up- 

 ward of $371,000 paid the General Govern- 

 ment there is a balance on hand of more than 

 a million of dollars, exclusive of the cash to the 

 credit of the Sinking and the School Funds." 



" By adverting to the tables which accom- 

 pany the Comptroller's Report, it appears that 

 whilst the apparent debt of the State on the 

 30th of September last, was $14,793,742.51, yet, 

 tinder the system pursued of annually investing 

 the accruing interest of the Sinking Fund in the 

 bonds of the State, that fund is at present the 

 holder of upward of half that portion of said 

 debt, for which the State is required to provide 

 interest ; for deducting from the above amount 

 of apparent debt the sum of $3,269,321.11, the 

 interest on which is provided by the Baltimore 

 and Ohio Railroad Company, and the whole 

 debt of the State on which she is in fact re- 

 quired to pay interest, is reduced to the sum of 

 $11,524,421.40 : and of this there was held by 

 the Sinking Fund, on the 80th of September 

 last, the sum of $5,649.656.83, and on other 

 bonds to tiie amount of $144,423.89 have been 



Stir chased on account of that fund since that 

 ay, making the present amount held by the 

 Sinking Fund, $5,794,080.22, or more than a 

 moiety of the interest bearing debt of the 

 State." 



The condition of the Treasury was consid- 



ered to be so prosperous, that the Governor 

 refrained from recommending the total repeal 

 of all direct tax laws, only through a considera- 

 tion of the demands which might arise in con- 

 sequence of the existing war. A restriction 

 of the rate of taxation, however, he recom- 

 mended. 



There is no nniform school system in the 

 State. In some counties commissioners are elect- 

 ed by the people; in others they are appointed 

 by the Orphans' Court, in others by the county 

 commissioners, and in others still, the courts 

 or the Commissioners perform the duties. Lit- 

 tle uniformity exists also in the mode of tax- 

 ation for this object. 



An enrolment of the State militia made in 

 1862, gave the number between eighteen and 

 forty-five years of age, as 95,442 citizens. After 

 deducting all exemptions for physical disability 

 and other causes, recognized in the State law, 

 there remained 57,558 men subject to military 

 duty. The force sent into the service of the 

 United States and raised for home defence, 

 was fifteen regiments and two companies of 

 infantry ; two regiments and two battalions of 

 cavalry, and five companies of light artillery. 



There are no institutions for the deaf mutes 

 and blind in the State. Such youthful persons 

 are educated by the State in the institutions of 

 Pennsylvania. The penitentiary of the State 

 pays a fair profit by hiring the services of its in- 

 mates to contractors at a fixed rate. 



The value of merchandise exported to for- 

 eign countries from Baltimore during 1863, was 

 $8,054,012. The imports during the same 

 time was $4,078,139 ; of this amount the value 

 of articles free of duty, was $118,738 ; do. pay- 

 ing duty, $3,959,401. 



A part of Maryland is in the middle military 

 department which embraces New Jersey, Penn- 

 sylvania, Delaware, Western Virginia, the east- 

 ern shore of Maryland and Virginia, and the 

 counties of Cecil, Hanford, Baltimore and Anne 

 Arundel, Md. With headquarters at Balti- 

 more, Gen. Robert C. Schenck was in com- 

 mand, until near the close of the year. The 

 difficulties which occurred at Baltimore in 1861. 

 and the well-known sympathy of a considerable 

 portion of the citizens of Maryland at that tiim> 

 with the South, and the importance of the 

 State to the Federal Government, and its lo- 

 cation between Washington, the capital, and tho 

 northern free labor States, have caused an im- 



gortant military force to be retained within tin) 

 tate. It has been constantly an object with 

 tho commanding general to prevent any " aid 

 and assistance " being given to the enemy, by 

 persons in his department. Some examples will 

 illustrate the strictness of the military vigilance 

 in Baltimore. On June 29th two persons, El- 

 mone and Walters, were arrested on a charge 

 of being disloyal and uttering treasonable sen- 

 timents. They took the oath of allegiance and 

 were set at liberty. At the same time ona 

 Anchor, arrested for " treasonable practices, ' 

 was examined and paroled. 



