460 



MARYLAND. 



7M0016&. The disbursement* fr..m this fund 

 foV'th* same prrind amounted to $77 

 leaving a ImlaocTsept. 80, 18W, of $2.io. 

 The receipt* on Mr. several sinking 



lie fiscal year were as follow : 

 meral fund. $34.816.70; for defence rcdemp- 

 &OQ loan, $846.800.17: f- r the exchange loan, 

 1860, $6,61 'gc loan. 1886, 



flM.il'. . total. $887,178JB. 



xl debt of the State at the close of 

 tb. Ibral year 1896 wa. $8,6844*6^4. The 

 productive MM* and th. investments to the 

 of the sinking funds aggregate $*,679,- 

 788,11. No allowance is here made f<>r the 

 s overdue from incorporated in>t it ut ion-. 

 oollectom of taxes and other accounting officers, 

 .,;>! - :;.. D ht the dilT.-n-nrr 

 between |*r value and market value of the as- 

 sets. If these were treated at the market value. 

 the net debt of the State would be practically 



Taxation and Valuation. The assessment 

 of real and personal property for the fiscal year 

 1806 was $584,900,476, being greater by $5,792,- 

 898 than that of 1894 



The levy for State taxes for 1895 on real and 

 personal property, at 17| cents on each $100, 

 amounted to $949.501.59. From collectors was 

 received during the fiscal year $908,411.18, an 

 increase of $33,252.29 over the receipts of 1894. 

 ii railroads and other corporations was re- 

 ceived, as a tax on gross receipts during the 

 year, $181,788.71, being $4,471.59 less than was 

 received in 1894. From the tax on the capital 

 stock of incorporated institutions the receipts 

 were $77,495.80, a decrease of $8,720.58. For 

 licenses and from tax on premiums paid to in- 

 surance companies $124,401.48 was collected, 

 an increase of $3,398.58 over receipts from the 

 same source during 1 -''. Kegisters of wills 

 paid in $141,599.82, $28,875.84 more than the 

 preceding year, and clerks of court $896,100.83. 



The levy for public schools, at 10$ cents on 

 each $100, amounted to $561,677; the receipts 

 from all sources during 1895 were $608,629.- 

 >o balance from 1894, was $264,826.71 ; the 

 total disbursements during the fiscal year 1895 

 were $601,088.04, leaving a balance of public- 

 school money applicable to school year begin- 

 ning Oct. 1, 1895, of $272,368.41, on which date 

 $102,625 was distributed to white schools and 

 $25.000 to colored schools. 



Under the provisions of the oyster act of 1894 

 the revenue of the oyster fund has increased, 

 while there has been a decrease in expenditures. 

 The receipts for 1895 were $64,994.09, being 

 greater than the receipts for the previous year 

 by $20345.40. The disbursements for the same 

 were $61,410.42, leaving a balance for 

 of $8,588.67. Included in these disbiirsc- 

 is $4.308.99 balance due on 1894 and 

 ..'_ sl'M.-.T.'JT. M that the 

 actual ohfeWEMfnent on acrount of maintenance 

 of the oyster police fishery force for the fiscal 

 year was $50.053.15, and the revenue above this 

 amount $14.040.94. 



K4nratioB.-In the year ended July 31, 1895, 

 the number of persons in the counties of Mary- 

 land between the ages of five and twenty years 

 waa 280376; in Baltimore ,ty, 140.016. The 

 colored school population in the counties num- 



bered 62,091: in Baltimore. 20..V.M. ] 

 support of the schools the conn 

 from the Slat.- * 4 4 1.587.95, and from lo . 

 tii.n $.V{7. iltimor.' received fn 



! I. ami from lo- a | In 

 658.41). 'I'M.- total of disbursement 

 in th.- rounti.-s was $1,263,487.71 : 

 1.91. 



stair [Mutations. Undo 



Legislature $75,000 was appropi 

 purchase of a site and buildings for a 

 ho>pital for the insane, and $25,000 as a J| 

 tenanre fund. In September $50." 

 for 530 acres in Carroll ('..nm . 

 on which are the historic I 1 

 and oth.T buildings, no\v in process ..f ; 

 tion for patient*. A resident ph\ 

 leeted whose salary was fixed at $2,500. 



he Maryland I'.lind AM him a n.-w buii 



:iu r and ''> 



I this year. In this institutio: 

 of the fiscal year there were 23 pupil s. 



For its hospitals, asylums, and n-f>n- 

 the State paid out. during 1895 more^^H 

 quarter of a million dollars. 



savings Banks. An act ..f i*i.l provi.] 

 in October, 1895, and every second year 

 after, there shall be sent to the OM 

 the treasurer of every savings instituti* 

 State, a sworn statement giving the : 

 every depositor not known to said 

 be living, who has not added to or decre 

 deposit during the preceding twenty yea- 

 the amount Manilin.u' to his credit 

 banks in the city of Baltimore th 

 plied with this provision. The numl.. 

 positors in the savings banks dm; 

 148,342, who had to their credit $4 



Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.- 1 

 acts passed at the session of 1894, mak 

 vision for payment of certain oblipr 

 this canal, the Governor withheld his sigS^H 

 with the desire to have all part i u!, 

 debtedness determined. Without 

 obligations are found to amount t< 

 Within the year the Board of PuMi 

 offered for sale the State's intenM j n th 

 and the two hids submitted, the 

 of $526,000 with certain conditions. . 

 jected. and other bids were invite': 

 tion affecting the State's intent had : 

 determined in Decemb>er, the board theni^^l 

 resolutions that any bids that mi^ht t) 

 be tendered to the board be r, -turned t< 

 ders unopened, and advising that the ; 

 be sold at auct imi to the highest bidder. 



Mineral Production. The R 

 and Mining, of the (o-.-ln^ieal Sin 

 ports of 1895 states that for l^'.il n 

 put was 3,501,428 short tons, valu 



: the value of the marble output \\ 

 000; r,f the limestone, $6?'~ ) 

 was worth $808,966: and the 



Industrial stati^tio. i 

 report of the Bureau of I mi 

 states that in the sweat si 

 ini: 1894 wages were reduced 50 j 

 :.en-ation for female labor was bt 

 ation fiifii res; while in none of t! 

 did the employees make more than half 

 As to the value of personal estates, the followi 



