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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,

ANNAPOLIS, January 2nd, 1867.

To the General Assembly of Maryland:

In obedience to the requirements of the Constitution and
Laws the following report is respectfully submitted:

The receipts into the Treasury from all sources during the
fiscal year ended September 30th, 1866, amounted to the sum
of $3,325,507.94, to which add the balance in the Treasury
on the 30th September, 1865, and the total amount in the
Treasury during the fiscal year was $3,758,433.94, as will
appear by reference to Statement "A," in the appendix to
this report. Of the receipts the sum of $390,901.96 was
derived from the Public School tax, and $840,695.91 from sales
of Bank and Rail Road Stocks. The sum of $1,916,510.00
was received from the ordinary sources of revenue, and exceeded
the receipts from similar sources during the previous year by
the sum of $314,405.87.

DISBURSEMENTS.

The disbursements during the fiscal year, as will appear by
Statement "B," amounted in the aggregate to $3,390,617.58.
Of this amount the sum of $928,285.51 was expended in the
payment of the temporary loan negotiated by the Treasurer,
and in the redemption of the bonds of the Annapolis and Elk
Ridge R. R. Co., and State 5 per cent. Stock.

The balance remaining in the Treasury at the close of the
fiscal year, including the Public School tax, was $367,816.26;
to which may be added the sum of $246,360.48 standing to
the credit of the Free School and Sinking Funds; making
the total cash balance $614,176.74. "

LICENSES, &c.

The revenue received from Clerks of Courts during the fiscal
year, for" Licenses, Tax on Officers' Commissions and on Com-
missions of Trustees, and from License to dredge for Oysters,
is set forth in detail in Table No. 1, of the appendix, and
amounted to $451,653.90; which sum, after deducting the
license issued to take and catch oysters, exceeds the amount
received during the previous year by $54,515.87, the year