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VI and the amount received on account of the Public School Tax, is shown by the following statement: Receipts from all sources,................ .$2, 681, 592 20 Balance in the Treasury 30th Sept. 1864,... 876, 899 33 $3, 558, 491 53 Disbursements,.......................... 3, 125, 565 53 $432, 926 00 Add am't to the credit of Free Schools Fund, 43, 773 34 " " " " of Sinking Fund,.... 177, 178 72 Total balance in Treasury 30th Sept.. 1865,... $653, 878 06 If, however, there be deducted from this amount, the balance to the credit of the "Funds" and the Public School Tax, the balance in the Treasury proper is $184, 183.74. There has been paid within the Fiscal Year, on account of Bounties to Volunteers and others, the sum of $1, 762, 420.88, exceeding the amount realized from loans by the sum of $931, 678.07, and the amount from both loans and the bounty tax by the sum of $666, 378.17. The total amount paid by this Department to the 30th day of September 1865, for bounties, is $3, 044, 089.78. The total amount realized from loans, is $1, 356, 930.81, and from the bounty tax of ten cents in each hundred dollars, is $460, 495.80, leaving the balance of $1, 226, 663, 17 paid from the revenue derived from other and ordinary sources, as will more clearly appear by reference to Statement "K." This result is the more striking when it is remembered that the State Direct Tax is only five cents in each one hundred dollars; and also, that during the same period, the expenses of the Constitutional Convention and one Session of the Gen- eral Assembly have been paid, and large sums expended in providing exchange for the payment of the Interest on the Sterling Debt. Under the provisions of chapter 49, of the Act of 1865, amendatory of chapter 15, of 1864, a large number of addi- tional rolls, embracing the Third Maryland Cavalry, and parts of thirteen other Regiments of White Volunteers, and the Second, Fourth, Seventh and Ninth Regiments of U. S. Colored. Troops, and parts of five others, have been certified and. returned to this Department. By the same Act the boun- ties -were made payable directly from the Treasury, and not, as before, through the agency of the County Commissioners and. City Register. The duties of this office were thus largely increased. Not less than fifteen thousand claims have been examined, many of which were incomplete or informal, and |
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