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agricultural products ? Either glut of grain here, 

 and consequent depression of prices, or the necessi- 

 ty of shipping it at a loss for freights. Warehouses 

 will be idle and not rent for the amount of taxes on 

 them. The Baltimore Warehouse Company derives 

 one half of its receipts from the storage of liquors. 

 Shall we retrograde after trying so hard to cope with 

 New York and Philadelphia? 



On January 18th the Legislature in joint con- 

 vention elected ex-Governor James B. Groome 

 United States Senator from March 4, 1879, to 

 succeed George R. Dennis. The vote was: 

 for Groome, 73; for Steiner, Republican, 17; 

 scattering, 2. 



An act was also passed to settle all pending 

 controversies between the Baltimore and Ohio 

 Railroad and the State. The number of acts 

 passed was limited, and they were almost en- 

 tirely of a local nature. 



A large revenue is derived by the State from 

 licenses and tax on life insurance companies 

 doing business within its limits. The follow- 

 ing aggregate comprises the business of nearly 

 all the companies : 



Amount of death claims on citizens of Maryland re- 

 ported to the companies $6,957,572 



Amount paid without dispute or contest 6,875,772 



Amount paid after litigation 32,486 



Amount successfully resisted 27,664 



Amount outstanding, due, and unsettled 22,000 



The number of public schools during 1878 in 

 Baltimore was 127, and in the counties 1,862 ; 

 total, 1,989 an increase for the year of 33. 

 Number of pupils in the schools in Baltimore, 

 45,951, and in the counties 110,323; total, 

 156,274, an increase of 5,998. The highest 

 number of pupils enrolled in one term in Bal- 

 timore, according to the report, was 35,288, 

 and in the counties 92,167; total, 127,455 

 an increase of 7,169. The average number in 

 daily attendance in the city was 29,518; in 

 the counties, 52,311 ; total, 81,829, an increase 

 of 6,103. The number of teachers in the city 

 aggregates 820, and in the counties 2,251 ; to- 

 tal, 3,071, an increase of 175. The number of 

 months the schools were open in the city was 

 10, and in the counties 8 7-10, making a total 

 of 18 7-10, and an average for the State ot 

 9 7-20. The amount paid for teachers' salaries 

 in Baltimore was $491,103.80, and in the coun- 

 ties $631,309.09 total, $1,122,413.63, an in- 

 crease of $3,735.44. The amount paid for build- 

 ing, repairing, and furnishing school-houses in 

 the city was $102,073.79, and in the counties 



105,588.31 total, $207,662.10, a decrease of 

 $801.53. The amount paid for books and sta- 

 tionery in the city was $39,085.67, and in the 

 counties $55,567.34; total, $94,953.01, a de- 

 crease of $15,350.99. The amount paid for 

 rent, fuel, and incidentals in the city was 

 $45,712.76, and in the counties $42,990.13 ; 

 total, $88,702.89, a decrease of $4,529.41. The 

 total expenditure for public-school purposes 

 in Baltimore amounted to $677,976.02, and in 

 the counties $915,283.64; total, $1,593,259.66. 

 The total expenditure for public-school pur- 

 poses in the city in 1877 amounted to $1,544,- 

 515.54, showing an increase in 1878 of $48,- 



744.12. The current expenses of white schools 

 in Baltimore amounted to $542,266.61, and of 

 colored schools $57,715.11. The expenses for 

 building and repairs of white schools amount- 

 ed to $55,682.33; colored, $22,311.97. The 

 amount received from county taxation in 1878 

 was $385,651.56, and in 1877 $393,637.17, a 

 decrease of $7,985.61. The total expenditure 

 for public-school purposes in 1878, in the coun- 

 ties, was $915,283.64, and in 1877 $928,225.04, 

 a decrease of $12,941.40. 



The productive capital of the State on Sep- 

 tember 30, 1878, amounted to $6,031,721.69, 

 and the unproductive $23,763,430.11 ; the total 

 funded debt on which interest had to be pro- 

 vided was $10,772,912.90, as an offset to which 

 the State held stocks and bonds to the amount 

 of $4,735,824.43, leaving a balance of $6,037,- 

 088.47, against which the State holds her un- 

 productive stock, $23,762,430.11, and $1,430,000 

 due from accounting officers and incorporated 

 institutions. During the fiscal year the debt 

 was reduced by redemption and exchange $479,- 

 777.79. For the fiscal year ending September 

 30, 1878, the total receipts of the State Treasury 

 were $2,295,263.89, and the total disbursements 

 $2,489,079.14, an excess of expenditures over 

 receipts of $193,815.25. The balance in the 

 Treasury proper at the close of the fiscal year 

 1877 was $397,981.13, and at the close of 1878 

 $204,165.88, which, with special balances of 

 $2,457.60 to the credit of the free-school fund, 

 and $8,215. 90 to the credit of the sinking fund, 

 made the total credits on September 30th 

 $214,839.38. The receipts from the ordinary 

 sources of revenue were $1,747,498.64, a falling 

 off from 1877 of $91,017.45, due largely to the 

 fact that the tax-collectors were not as prompt 

 in their payments as during the previous year, 

 and a decrease in the receipts for licenses, at- 

 tributable in both cases to the dullness and 

 hardness of the times. The receipts from 

 sources other than ordinary amounted to $547,- 

 765.25, realized from the following sources: 

 from the sale of $250,000 Treasury relief bonds, 

 with 6 per cent, interest coupons attached, 

 authorized by act of the Legislature of 1878, 

 making, with premium on the same amounting 

 to $12,500 (5 per cent, net above par), $262,500 ; 

 from sale of Maryland State loan stock, $183,- 

 580 (applied to payment of the overdue sterling 

 debt), from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 

 Company, by terms of adjustment act of 1878, 

 $100,911.20 ; from the sale of old State-House 

 furniture, lumber, etc., $634.25 ; and from 

 some unknown person, as conscience money, 

 $139.80. The receipts from ordinary sources 

 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1879, 

 are estimated at $1,938,179.94, not including 

 the $250,000 Treasury relief bonds, which wiU 

 be available for future use as exigencies may 

 require. The probable disbursements for 1879 

 are estimated at $1,828,249.48. 



The Agricultural College is free from debt, 

 and has an income of $13,288. The receipts 

 from tuition during the year were $963. Prep- 



