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it will go, the indebtedness created for the erection of the new Tobacco
Warehouse, hereinafter referred to, in that city.

By chapter 381 of 1853, the Legislature authorised Commissioners to
have erected a new Warehouse, and appropriated a sum of money not to
exceed $35,000, to pay for its construction. Of this sum, the Commis-
sioners have already drawn nearly the entire amount appropriated; and in
pursuance of the directions of the Act of Assembly, this amount has been
charged to the Tobacco Fund, making it considerably in debt on this
account to the General Treasury of the State.

From a full examination of the subject, it is believed, that the Legislature
will find no necessity for the appointment of any additional Inspector to
this Warehouse, but it is recommended, that it shall be devoted, when
finished, exclusively to the storage of Tobacco, which cannot be taken
into the other Warehouses. By this means, the large expenditure of
money made for storage for many years past, will be at once saved to the
Tobacco Inspections, and prevent their becoming a charge and burden
to the State.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Auction Laws, the Laws relating to Fines, Forfeitures and Penal-
ties, to Agencies of Foreign Insurance Companies, to payment of Divi-
dends on Bank Stocks owned by the State, were all suggested as requiring
revision and amendment by the first Comptroller of the Treasury Depart-
ment, and his recommendation should receive a prompt response from the
Legislature at its next Session.

The present Comptroller will bold himself ready, at their call, to put into
practical shape these necessary changes.

All which is respectfully submitted.

WM. PINKNEY WHYTE,

Comptroller.