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Report of the Comptroller, 1852
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22 COMPTROLLER'S REPORT.
mation in the possession of this Department as will enable it to
present to the Legislature, at this time, any reliable project for
the modification of the revenue system upon the basis of the
new assessment. When the returns are received, and an op-
portunity is afforded the Department to digest and prepare them
for the use of the General Assembly., the undersigned, in obe-
dience to the Constitutional provision, which enjoins upon him.
the duty to "digest and prepare plans for the improvement and.
management of the revenue," will offer such views upon the
subject as may appear to him to comport with the credit and.
honor of the State, and the true interests of the people.
Article VII, Section 5 of the Constitution, provides that, "from
and after the first day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine,
no Lottery scheme shall be drawn for any purpose whatever;
nor shall any Lottery ticket be sold in this State; and it shall
be the duly of the several Commissioners, elected under this
Constitution, to make such contract, or contracts, as will extin-
guish all existing Lottery grants before the said first day of
April, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and also secure to the
State a clear yearly revenue equal to the average amount derived
by the State from the system for the last five years; but no such
contract, or contracts, shall be valid until approved by the
Treasurer and Comptroller." Chapter 113, Section 3, of Jan-
uary session, 1852, authorised the Commissioner of Lotteries,
for the purpose of making a contract, or contracts, as required
by the above quoted article, to "accept a surrender of any exist-
ing contract." The existing contract for drawing the Maryland.
Consolidated Lotteries was held by Francis Morris and Richard
France, survivors of George Cook, and took effect from the first
day of December, 1851, to continue for three years. On the
twenty-seventh day of March last, the Commissioner of Lotte-
ries entered into au agreement with Francis Morris and Richard
France for the surrender to the State, from and after the first
day of April then next, of the existing contract. On the twelfth
day of April thereafter, the Lottery Commissioner, on behalf of
the State, contracted with Richard France for the drawing of
the Maryland Consolidated Lotteries for the period of seven
years from the first day of that month; the contractor binding
himself to pay to the Commissioner such proportions of moneys
annually, as would fully extinguish the existing grants, and all
costs and charges incident thereto, at the time limited in the

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