nization Society had been incorporated, and was in full operation;
the board of managers appointed by act of 1831 were required to
be taken from that society, so that, combining the resources of the
State and the society together, anti all directed by that society, the
fruits of the enterprise flow from both, and the answer to this in
quiry includes that other also; "the amount of Colonization taxes,
and to what purposes applied."
There have been Colonized in Africa since November 1831.
1,011 souls; and the entire expenditures of the society from its
organization in 1831, up to the 1st January, 1 85 1, have been
$298,000; Of which, there has been recieved from the State, the
sum of $181,139 91, under the law of 1831; $12,463 35, from
the tax upon slaves brought into the State; $930, from the appro
priation of the act of 1827; and the balance $103,467 74, from
other sources. Of other resources, the principal ones have been
the contributions of individuals, and the gain on he profit and loss
accoun€ of trade by the society, to the coast of Africa, The gain
on the trade alone amounting to over $59000 00 in that time.
The expenses in Baltimore, since the commencement of the
society's operations, say since 1 831, have averaged annually about
$2,200, or, in all $44,000. This is made up of various sums
such as $1 ,000, paid as a salary to home agent; a clerk at salary
of $300; and a travelling agent of $50, per month; office rent
fuel, &c. make up the bal ance. Besides this, there is paid the
sum of $2,800, annual ly as sa laries to officers in Maryland, in
Africa.
The Maryland State Colonization Society, incorporated by the
Legislature at December sess ion 1831, chapter 314, the object of
which, was to employ the means collected in Maryland to the re—
moval of the free colored population of the State under the aus
pices of the American Colonization Society at Washington,
formed in December 1816; thought this purpose could he better
effected by a seper ate and independent action on the part of the
State and society; hence, in the fall of 1833, the State Society de-
termined, with the co-operation of the managers of the State
Fund, to found the Colony cf Maryland in Liberia; the seat of
whose government should be Cape Palmas.
The purchase of ten itory was made in February, 1 834, to the
extent of 130 miles on the Atlantic Coast. and to an indefinite ex
tent in the interior. So that, a part of the above expenses of the
Society, is attributable also, to the purchase of territory, as well as
the collecting, sending and settling of Colonists therein, together
with the necessary expenses attending the municipal and practicle
developements ol a government, which now forms a nucles of a
future, and it may be, mighty empire.
The committee conclude this report by adding the census of
1850, just completed; together with the results of their delibera
tions, which they propose to incorporate in the constitution, as
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