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in repairing and altering the canal. In fifteen 

 years, from 1854, to December, 1869, the total 

 amount of payments to bondholders, made by 

 all administrations of the canal, was $115,861.- 

 29. The gross receipts of 1871, to December 1st, 

 were $486,281.16 ; current expenses, $173,558.- 

 49 ; showing a net revenue of $312,722.67. In a 

 suit brought before the Court of Appeals to 

 decide the priority of payments of the canal, 

 the court decided that what are known as 



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repair-bonds should be first paid. These, 

 amounting in principal and interest to $426,- 

 500, have all been paid within two years. 

 The first lien now existing upon the net tolls 

 and revenues of the canal, under the same de- 

 cree of the Court of Appeals, is the unpaid 

 and overdue coupons on the preferred or con- 

 struction bonds. To the payment of these, 

 $75,000, now in the treasury of the canal, 

 have been appropriated. 



OF 1870. 



Included in the census are two Chinese and 

 four Indians. The true value of property was 

 $643,748,976. The public debt, county, town, 

 city, etc., amounted to $15,715,111. The ag- 

 gregate value of farm-products, including bet- 

 terments and additions to stock, was $35,343,- 

 927 ; 435,213 pounds of wool were raised ; 

 46,792 whites, and 88,703 colored persons, ten 

 years old and over, cannot write, of whom 

 61,981 are males, and 73,514 females. Of 

 those, twenty-one years old and over, who 

 cannot write, 13,344 are white males. 



The free public-school system has made sat- 

 isfactory progress during the past two years. 

 The number of schools in operation in 1871, 

 exclusive of those in the city of Baltimore, 

 was 1,390, an increase of 30 during the year; 

 total number of scholars. 80,829, an increase 

 of 3,375 during the year. The number of 

 scholars in Baltimore City was 34,864. The 

 total number of teachers employed in the 

 counties was 1,691, of whom 967 were men, 

 and 724 women ; their salaries amounted to 

 $510,155.10. The total expenditure, in 1871, 

 for school purposes, exclusive of buildings, in 

 the counties, was $782,920.49; in Baltimore 

 City, $386,027.81. The amount received from 

 the State as State school-tax, free-school fund, 

 and academic fund, in 1871, was $354,644.83 ; 

 from county taxation, $302,640.80. The 

 amount paid to colored schools in the coun- 

 ties was only $4,611.40; this is less than ten 

 cents for each colored person within the pre- 



scribed school age. The law requires that all 

 the taxes paid for school purposes by the 

 colored people in any county shall be set aside 

 for maintaining schools for colored children ; 

 and further authorizes the several boards of 

 county school commissioners to appropriate 

 such additional sums as they may deem proper 

 for this purpose. The former amounted to an 

 insignificant sum, and the latter to a trifle over 

 $4,500. The boards declare that they have no 

 surplus revenue, all their funds being required 

 for the support of the white schools. The 

 total number of students in the State Normal 

 School during the year 1871 was 163, of whom 

 51 came from Baltimore. The number of grad- 

 uates and undergraduates at present teaching 

 in the State is not less than 200. The colleges 

 which receive their principal support from 

 State appropriations were never in a more 

 promising condition than at the close of 1871. 

 St. John's and the Agricultural College, owing 

 to the large preponderance of students on 

 State scholarships, and the openings for more, 

 are regarded as practically free. The Manual 

 Labor School, situated between the Washing- 

 ton and Frederick turnpikes, and having at- 

 tached to it a farm of 140 acres, has given in- 

 struction the past year to 60 boys, most of 

 them orphans. The annual cost, per capita, 

 has been about $105. When the pupils re- 

 ceive an ordinary rudimentary education, they 

 are apprenticed either to farmers or mechanics 

 within the boundaries of the State. 



