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MARYLAND. 



pavments to schools in cities, towns, and villages 

 ml HUH 'the number of departments being 248), 



Agriculture. The official report of the year's 

 crops, issued in December, IS'.KS. by the provincial 

 Department of Agriculture, contained information 

 as to the actual yield of the various kinds ot 

 grain and the conditions generally existing during 

 harvest and autumn. The total yield ot wheat 

 was >.-> 313 745 bushels, compared with 18.261,950 

 bushels in 1S97. an increase of 7.051,795. The area 

 sown was increased 107.350 acres, and the aver- 

 aue vield increased from 14.14 to 17.01 bushels 

 an al-re. Of oats. 17.30S.252 bushels were raised, 

 0,070.739 in excess of the preceding year; the 

 average yield was 33.0 bushels, compared with 

 >> 7 Hurley, flax. rye. peas, potatoes, and other 

 roots were 'in excess of 1897. The dairy indus- 

 try su iTe red from the good prices for wheat that 

 prevailed, as also did hog raising. Following is 

 a summary of the yields of the chief crops of 

 the province in 1898: Wheat, 1,488,232 acres, 25,- 

 313.745 bushels; oats, 514,824 acres, 17,308,252 

 bushels: barley. 158.058 acres, 4,277,927 bushels; 

 potatoes. 19.791 acres, 3.253,038 bushels; roots, 

 8.44S acres, 2.471,715 bushels. 



The total grain crop of the province was 47,- 

 345.004 bushels. The number of beef cattle ex- 

 ported was 12,525, of which more than 7,500 came 

 from the northwestern portion tributary to the 

 line of the Manitoba and Northwest Railway. 

 There were 9,500 stockers shipped to the North- 

 west Territories to be fattened and 20,000 shipped 

 to the t'nited States. The number of hogs shipped 

 to British Columbia by the Canadian Pacific Rail- 

 road was 5,100. The number received by Winni- 

 peg butchers and packers was 18,000. Customs 

 returns showed that 1,919,784 pounds of pork 

 were imported to Winnipeg from the United 

 States. The season was favorable for all engaged 

 in the manufacture of cheese and butter. The 

 total of dairy products sold was $409,455. The 

 farmers sold 31,455 turkeys, 13,010 geese, and 

 127,600 chickens in the year, and expended $1,469,- 

 000 on farm buildings. There was an increase 

 of at least 2,500 in the number of farmers in 



Miscellaneous. The post of Chief Justice of 

 Manitoba was given to Justice A. C. Killam. 

 The imports into the province in 1898 were 

 $5.391,237, an increase of $2,000,000 over 1897. 

 At least 300 miles of branch railways were com- 

 pleted in the year, and the Government reports 

 show an immigration of 28,000 persons, including 

 Home thousands of Doukhobers from Russia a 

 peculiar sect of peace-loving, well-behaved people 

 who were assisted by various subsidies and con- 

 tributions. 



MARYLAND, a Middle Atlantic State, one of 

 the original thirteen, ratified the Constitution 

 April 28, 1788; area, 12,210 square miles. The 

 population, according to each decennial census, 

 was 317,728 in 1790; 341.548 in 1800; 380546 in 

 1810; 407.350 in 1820; 447,040 in 1830; 470,019 in 

 1840; 583,034 in 1850; 687,049 in 1860; 780,894 in 

 1870; 934.945 in 1880; and 1,042,390 in 1890. Capi- 

 tal. Annapolis. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officer* during the year: Governor, Lloyd 

 Lowndes; Secretary of State, Richard Dallam; 

 Comptroller, P. L. Goldsborough; Treasurer, T. 

 J. Shryoek; Adjutant General. A. L. Wilmer; 

 Attorney-General, H. M. Claybaugh; Superin- 

 tendent of Education. E. B. Prettyman ; Commis- 

 sioner of Insurance, F. Albert Kurtz all Repub- 

 licans except Prettyman, Democrat; Chief Judge 

 of the Court of Appeals, James McSherry; Asso- 



ciate Judges, David Fowler, A. Hunter Boyd, 

 Henry Page, Charles B. Roberts, John P. Briscoe, 

 S. D." Schmucker, and James A. Pearce; Clerk, 

 Allan Rutherford all Democrats except Schmuck- 

 er and Rutherford, Republicans. 



Finances. According to the report of the 

 Comptroller for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 

 1898, the total treasury receipts of the year ag- 

 gregated $3,095,314.22, adding to which sum the 

 balance in the treasury Sept. 30, 1897, of $707,- 

 138.58, and cash to the credit of the various funds 

 of $509,865.44, made the total receipts $4,312,- 

 318.24, or a gain of $622,220.08 over the preced- 

 ing year. Exclusive of balances and the amount 

 to the credit of the several sinking funds and 

 the common free-school fund, the ordinary receipts 

 were $3,095,314.22, against $2,772,055.40 for 1897, 

 or a gain of $323,258.82. In this gain was in- 

 clu(led $125,000, the amount received from the 

 military emergency fund, yet in the preceding 

 year was included $27,500, being the dividend on 

 $550,000 of the stock of the Washington branch 

 of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, 

 which sum was lost to the treasury this year; 

 therefore the net gain in the ordinary receipts 

 was $225,758.82. 



The amount received from collectors of State 

 taxes during the year aggregated $1,092,899.85, 

 the largest in the history of the State, as against 

 $1,019,631.76 for the year previous, or a gain 

 of $73,268.09; and that notwithstanding the large 

 increase in the gain of the preceding year of 

 $175,011.41, while the gain from tax on incor- 

 porated institutions and tax on Baltimore city 

 stock was $10,753.49 and $1,915.23 respectively; 

 hence the total gain during the year from direct 

 taxes aggregated $85,936.81, an augmentation spe- 

 cifically dedicated to the sinking funds, free 

 books, and the public schools. 



An increase of $18,344.02 was shown in excess 

 of fees of office, and of $20,498.93 from tax on 

 gross receipts of corporations, the total receipts 

 from the latter amounting to $191,638.98. The 

 Comptroller says : " Even this large amount is 

 not what it should and would be if it were not 

 for special exemptions granted by the Legisla- 

 ture in years past to sundry corporations. It 

 can not be denied that real estate bears the bur- 

 den of taxation, and were it not for such exemp- 

 tions, and all corporations were compelled to pay 

 their just share of the burdens of taxation, our 

 rate could soon be materially reduced." The sev- 

 eral registers of wills paid into the treasury $184,- 

 155.44, a gain of $83,404.06 over the previous year. 



The disbursements aggregated $3,236,101.50, an 

 excess of $255,141.92 over the previous year, leav- 

 ing a balance in the treasury proper of $566,351.30. 

 The receipts from all sources, increment from 

 investments, cash transferred from the treasury 

 and from the sale of securities held by the vari- 

 ous sinking funds aggregated $945,176.62. In this 

 amount was included the sale of Baltimore city 

 stock of the par value of $501,200, being the en- 

 tire holdings of the State in these securities, ex- 

 cept the amounts held by the common free : school 

 fund and the Agricultural College, said sale net- 

 ting, clear of commissions, $518,075.75, which 

 amount deducted from the gross receipts left 

 $427,100.87 as the ordinary receipts during the 

 year from increment on investments and cash 

 transferred from the treasury, or a sum greater 

 by $42,633.47 than that of the year preceding. 

 There was purchased for the defense redemption 

 loan sinking fund stock of its own loan of the 

 par value of $439,952, costing $447,877.98; hence 

 at the close of the fiscal year the various sinking 

 funds showed a total cash balance of $497,298.64. 



