COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,

Annapolis, March 4,1870.
Hon. Barnes Compton,
President of the Senate:

DEAR SIR :—In compliance with the following order, passed
the Senate on the 3d inst., to wit:

Ordered, That the Comptroller of the Treasury report to
the Senate the amount of cash and available assets that has
stood to the credit of the State on the first day of March, in
each and every year since 1862—"

I beg leave to state that the cash book of this Department
shows there was cash in hand as follows, to wit:

March 1st, 1863...................................... 532,91 25-

1864,..................................... 1,1.72,09873
" 1865...................................... 655,00689
" 1866...................................... 359,34399
" 1867...................................... 297,549 76
1868...................................... 187,44062
1869,............................... .. 22673063:
" 1870...................................... 335,46560
All of which is respectfully submitted.
LEVIN WOOLFORD,

Comptroller.
C. A. WAILES, Chief Clerk.

Which was read and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Mr. Spates moved that the rules be suspended, in order to
give the House bill entitled an Act to incorporate the Monu-
mental Fire Insurance Company of Baltimore, and to change
the name of said Corporation and enlarge its powers, a third
reading.

The yeas and nays were called as required by section 27,
of Article 3, of the Constitution and appeared, as follows :

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs. Biggs, Miller,
Browne, Parker,
Clarke, Sellman,
Earle, Snyder,
Grove, Spates,
Henkle, Timmons,
Maddox, Welch,
Malone, Wilson—16.

NEGATIVE.—None.

So two-thirds of all the Senators elected not having voted
in the affirmative, the rules were not suspended.

Mr. Earle moved that when the Senate adjourn to day, it
stand adjourned until Monday at 11 o'clock.