456 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



Unproductive. 



Due from the Chesapeake and Ohio Caiial 

 Company Interest $11,122,578.37 



Bonds of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal 

 Company 2,000,000.00 



Stock of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal 

 Company 5,000,000.00 



Stock of the Annapolis and Elkridge Kail- 

 road Company 299,378.41 



Stock of the Maryland and Delaware Rail- 

 road Company, per chap. 303 of 1860 140,350.00 



Stock of the Eastern Shore Railroad Com- 

 pany, chap. 303 of 1860 112,700.00 



Stock of the Philadelphia and Baltimore 

 Central Railroad Company, per chap. 303 

 of 1860 35,000.00 



Stock of the Wicomico and Pocomoke Rail- 

 road Company, per chap. 303 of 1860 64,101.00 



Stock of the Bohemia Bridge Company, per 

 chap. 303 of 1860 ." .'.... 15,876.99 



Stock of the Dorchester and Delaware Rail- 

 road Company, chap. 303 of 1860 60,000.00 



Stock of the Kent and Queen Anne Rail- 

 road Company, chap, 303 of I860 20,000.00 



Loan to the President and Directors of 

 the Potomac Company 30,000.00 



Interest thereon to May 16, 1825 13,280.00 



Stock of the Potomac Company 120,444.44 



Nanticoke Bridge Company 4,333.33 



Chesapeake Steam Towing-Company 25,000.00 



Bonds installed and not installed, exclu- 

 sive of interest 10,000.00 



Due from the Penitentiary, for premium 

 and interest 5,097.36 



Stock of the Elkton Bank. 10,000.00 



Dividend Bond No. 58, of Baltimore and 

 Ohio Railroad Company 80.00 



Total Unproductive $19,088,219.90 



Total Productive 7,072,676.36 



Grand total. 



The valley of the Patapsco River, in Mary- 

 land, was visited, on the 24th of July, by a ter- 

 rific flood, which so much swelled the volume 

 of that stream, that great damage was done by 

 the overflow in the city of Baltimore and other 

 towns farther up the river. Ellicott City was 

 almost destroyed, and several lives were lost. 

 The water filled several of the streets of Balti- 

 more, and produced great confusion. The dam- 

 age to property in and about the city is said to 

 have been about $3,000,000. 



MASSACHUSETTS. The Legislature of 

 this State was in session from the first Wednes- 

 day in January until the 12th of June. The 

 number of days occupied by its sittings was 

 165, which constitutes the longest term ever 

 known in the State. During that time 352 

 acts were passed and 6V resolves approved by 

 the Governor. 



The subject of regulating the sale of liquor 

 was the prominent topic under consideration. 

 The Governor, in his message at the beginning 

 of the session, informed the members that the 

 people had expressed themselves in favor of a 

 change in the existing law, but it was well 

 known that Mr. Bullock was himself opposed 

 to a license system. A law was framed early 

 in the session, providing for the sale of intoxi- 

 cating drinks on licenses to be issued by county 

 commissioners. The classes of persons to 

 whom licenses might be granted " to sell to be 

 drunk on the premises," were " licensed inn- 

 holders," "licensed common victuallers," and 

 " liquor-dealers engaged in no other business 

 connected therewith." Liquor-dealers, grocers, 



apothecaries, and brewers may also be allowed 

 " to sell not to be drunk on the premises." It 

 is left to cities and towns by a vote of their 

 citizens to determine, if they see fit, that no 

 license shall be granted to persons within their 

 limits. The county commissioners, or the 

 mayors and aldermen of cities, have authority 

 at any time to enter upon the premises of these 

 licensed dealers, to ascertain the manner in 

 which their business is conducted, and to take 

 samples of their liquors for analysis ; and any 

 one selling liquors of bad quality is liable to 

 forfeiture of his license. All dealers are re- 

 quired to keep a strict account of all liquors 

 sold by them, and to make a return thereof 

 once in two months to the treasurer of the city 

 or town in which they carry on the business ; 

 and a tax varying from one to two per cent, is 

 imposed upon the value of liquors sold under 

 license. 



This act did not meet the approval of Gov- 

 ernor Bullock, but as he recognized the fact 

 that the judgment of the people had been ex- 

 pressed in favor of some system of licenses in 

 place of the prohibitory measures of former 

 years, he saw fit to allow the bill to become a 

 law by withholding his assent beyond the pe- 

 riod of five days allowed by the constitution 

 for the approval or disapproval of the Govern- 

 or. He was not, however, willing that the 

 withholding of his formal assent should be 

 construed as a tacit approval of the new law, 

 or attributed to indifference on the subject. 

 He accordingly^sent a message to the House 

 of Representatives, where the measure origi- 

 nated, in which he sought " to place on rec- 

 ord " his " earnest conviction that the restric- 

 tions it provides are not in accordance with 

 the measure of regulation demanded by the 

 people of the Commonwealth." He uses the 

 following language regarding this matter: 

 " The fourth section of the bill throws open 

 public bars and tippling-houses in every quar- 

 ter of the State. It leads into temptation the 

 young and the weak ; it spreads a snare for 

 the stranger and the unwary. It replaces thrift 

 with waste ; and the peace and quiet of neigh- 

 borhoods with boisterous and reckless disor- 

 der. It is destructive to the influences of the 

 family and the fireside ; adverse to good morals, 

 and repugnant to the religious sentiment of 

 the community. 



" To a measure like this, which as a citizen 

 I could not support, as the Chief Magistrate 

 of the Commonwealth I cannot affix my sig- 

 nature in approval; and declining to return it 

 with my objections for the reasons I have 

 given, I refer it to the judgment and the con- 

 science of all the people of Massachusetts." 



The course of the Governor, in allowing this 

 bill to become a law before giving his reason 

 for withholding his approval of it, received 

 some severe comment in the House of Repre- 

 sentatives, and his message having been re- 

 ferred to the Judiciary Committee, they report- 

 ed in favor of returning that document with 



