

MARYLAND. 



467 



In the Third District, the Prohibition candi- 

 date received 555 votes, and in the Fourth 621. 

 The following is the registered vote of Mary- 

 land : 



White. Colored. 



MARYLAND. State Government The follow- 

 ing were the State officers during the year: 

 Governor, Robert Milligan McLane, Demo- 

 crat; Secretary of State, Robert B. Milligan; 

 Attorney-General, Charles B. Roberts ; Treas- 

 urer, Barnes Compton ; Comptroller of the 



Treasury, J. Frank Turner; Adjutant-General, Aiiegany 7,873 850 7678 



Colonel James Howard ; Commissioner of the jg*g 8,790 2,914 efa 



Land-Office, J. Thomas Scharf ; Commissioner gggs 2 nty ;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ggj ^ ft Jg 



of Taxes, Levin Woolford ; Commissioner of Caivert 1,232 1,255 2,537 



Insurant, Jesse K. Hmes; Commissioner of g^";;; i^ ;E \% J ?f 



Labor Statistics, Thomas C. Weeks. Judici- Cecil 5,543 1,059 e>7 



ary, Court of Appeals : Chief Judge, Richard Charles 1,91-8 2,126 4,029 



H Alvey; L.T.H. Irving, John M. Robinson, K^::.:\\:"\\"\\:\ $$ JJg ^ 



George Yellott, Oliver Miller, John Ritchie, Garrett 2,871 29 2,900 



Frederick Stone, and William Shephard Bry- ggjj;;; j$ ^ JjJ 



an, Associate Judges. Kent 2^945 1,975 4',920 



I^bUUv. S^i.a.-The Legislature met on JBS3& ;:: JJg J^ Jffi 



Jan. 2, and adjourned on March 31, having Queen Anne's 2,946 i,6os 4,554 



enacted 521 laws, among which were these : Somerset 3,235 i,84i 5,126 



Establishing a mining-school in the county of Alle- Talbot ... i !*. i !!."'.!!!'.!!'..'! s'l04 ijsol 4,'905 



gany, in connection with the public free-school sys- Washington 8,255 760 9,015 



tern of the State ; regulating the taking of oysters in Wicomico 8,252 1,026 4,278 



the Potomac river ; to prevent the spread of infec- Worcester 8,058 1,487 4,495 



tious or contagious diseases among the live-stock of 



the State ; regulating the running of traction-engines Taxation and Assessment. The State tax rate 



on the public roads of the State; providing for the for public 8C h oo ls and State debt, for 1884, is 



collection ot statistics and information concerning the ,.* 4l An T . , , ' 



various branches of industry practiced in the State, Jt cents on $100. The assessment that forms 



and the needs thereof, and the abuses that exist there- the City and county tax basis is : 



in (establishes a Bureau of Statistics and Information Aiiegany $18,156,000 00 



under a chief appointed by the Governor with the con- Anne Arundel ...."...............'.!'. 1 o!336'927 86 



sent of the Senate) ; subjecting to assessment and taxa- Baltimore city 249,000,000 00 



tion all bonds or certificates of debt bearing interest Baltimore county 61,766,429 00 



issued by any railroad or other corporation of the Pamilnp' A. nil 9tS 



State secured'by mortgage of property wholly within enroll .V. ! iJffiS 00 



the btate ; authorizing the voters 01 various counties Cecil 14,154,064 00 



to determine by ballot whether intoxicating liquors Charles '.'. ..............'. 3'473,176 00 



shall be sold therein ; to prevent and punish frauds Dorchester 6.114,405 00 



in the sale of oysters sold in hermetically sealed, tin Frederick 24,940,691 00 



cans ; forbidding marriages between white persons and nT^i o' VM vl ?n 



persons of negro descent to the third generation ; to "2 7 IWAQTS *w> 



protect the health of those employed in factories, Kent . '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. ! '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '/. '. '. '. '. '. ffilw 00 



manufacturing establishments, and workshops in the Montgomery ........ '. '. '.'.....'.'.'.'. '. '. '. 8,647^560 00 



State ; providing for the protection of the property Prince George's s',000,000 00 



of railroad companies and of property in railroad-cars Queen Anne's 7,035,605 00 



and carriages, and to punish offenses against the same ; om ? rse * o'a 6 o' 6 ^ nn 



providing for the appointment of a commission to in- oCiKnJ ry 8 c oa'no 



quire into the expediency and utility of draining the WashJngton:::::::::::::::::;:::::; 17622S 00 



marshy districts ot Maryland, and the practicability Wicomico 3720429 00 



of cultivating the eucalyptus- tree in the malarious Worcester '...'.'.'.'. ..............'.. 4873*05400 



^'^l^ST^^^^^ Statistic-Baltimore wasfmmded in 



lishin" a uniform standard of time throughout the 1729. It was incorporated in 1797. Its popu- 



State (75th meridian) ; prohibiting the creation in fu- lation then was 26,000 ; its population now is 



ture of irredeemable ground-rents ; and regulating the over 415,000. The assessed value of the prop- 

 erty in the city then was $2,240,000; the as- 



On the 18th of January Ephraim K. Wil- sesse d value of Baltimore property in 1883 was 



son, Democrat, was chosen United States $248,803,232, to which should be added Bal- 

 timore's share in Baltimore county, which is 



Political. The following was the vote for worth $30,000,000, and Baltimore property 



Presidential Electors on the 4th of November: unassessed, which amounts to $150,000,000, 



Republican 86,747; Democratic, 96,931 ; Pro- making a total of over $428,000,000. 



hibition, 2,792 ; Greenback, 573. The vote for The city has thirty-three banks, with a com- 



ssmen was as follows : bined capital of over $n, 00,000. The census of 



DISTRICT. Republican. I Democratic J. 8 ? sh Wed .^ ^ h * d 2,914 industrial CStab- 



__J . hshments, with 55,835 employes, and annual 



14,641 16.726 products of over $70,000,000. In 1883 it re- 



TMrd .:::;:: JoS ilia ceived 30,275,000 bushels of grain and 1,250,- 



Fourth" '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 14,324 15J26 000 barrels of flour. The total value of the 



SSL;: ' ftHS iJ'Ji? imports was $12,448,802 ; of the exports, $49,- 



" 111!: 1M ' J 973,204. During the year the city exported 



