1874.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 551

Statement showing the Expenses of Comptroller's Office for
the fiscal year 1866, as compared with Expenses of said
Office for the fiscal year 1873 :

(For 1866.)

Salaries paid Comptroller and Clerks................$ 6,071 61

Printing Comptroller's Report......................... 500 00

Printing blank licenses, protests, circulars, &c... 1,526 87
Printing, advertising, clerical services, &c , in

Bounty Department................................... 3,081 91

Total expences of the office for the year 1866..$11, 180 39
(For 1873.)

Salaries paid Comptroller and Clerks... $ 7,700 00

Additional temporary clerical assist-
ance, as provided by chapter 312, of
1872 ......................................... 56 67

Printing Comptroller's Report............ 1,000 00

Printing blank licenses, protests, cir-
culars, &c................................... 1,442 23

Travel expenses of Comptroller and
John H. Handy, Esq., attorney-at-
law, to Cumberland, and in Balti-
more City, in attention to case State
vs. Cumberland and Pennsylvania
Rail Road Company, (as authorized
by chapter 312, of 1872)................$ 33 90

Expenses of Clerk sent on special mes-
sage to Caroline county................. 17 75

Expenses in City of Baltimore, in atten-
tion to claims of the State and ques-
tions of assessment of the stock of the
various corporations in said city...... 129 10

——— 180 75

Printing, advertising, clerical services,
&c., in Bounty Department............ 1,500 00

Total expenses of office for
the year 1873.................. $11,879 65

Showing an increase in the expenses of the year 1873, over
those for the year 1866, of $699,26. The salaries of the
clerks in the office are prescribed by law, and the Comp-
troller has complied with the law in regard to them.

The other expenses of the office amounted, in 1866, to the
sum of $5,108.78, while those for 1873 amounted to
$4,122.98, being less than those for 1866 by the sum of
$975.80.