WEDNESDAY, February 9,1870.
The Senate met pursuant to adjournment.
Prayer by the Rev. Father Duffey.
Present at roll call the following Senators :

Messrs. President, Biggs, Carroll, .Clarke, Denson, Earle,
Fields, Grove, Henkle, Henry, Hyland, Jump, Maddox,
Malone, Miller, Parker, Sellman, Snyder, Spates, Stephen-
son, Timmons, Welch, Wilson—23.

The President laid before the Senate the following commu-
nication from the Comptroller in response to an order of the
Senate:

COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,

Annapolis, Feb. 9, 1870.
Hen. Barnes Compton,
President of the Senate:

Dear Sir :—In compliance with the following order passed
by the Senate on the 8th instant, to wit:

"Ordered, That the Comptroller of the Treasury report
to the Senate, the amount of money, if any, paid to the In-
spectors of Tobacco for the past two years from the Treasury
proper, in excess of the sum received into the Treasury from
said Inspectors on account of inspection of tobacco."

I beg leave to state that there has been received for the
past two years (from January 1, 1868, to January 1, 1870,
by the several Inspectors of Tobacco,) $202,589.61, and there
has been expended by them for clerk hire, laborers, nails,
and incidental expenses, $180,348.25, leaving a balance which
was paid into the Treasury by the several Inspectors of $22,-
241.36, and there has been paid by the Treasurer during said
time as salary to the several Inspectors, $25,000, or $2,758.64
more than has been received into the Treasury from said In-
spectors.
Respectfully submitted,
LEVIN WOOLFORD,
Comptroller.

Which was read and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Also,

The following communication from the Comptroller, in
response to an order of the Senate :