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REVENUE FROM CLERKS OF COURTS.

Table No. 2, of the Appendix, shows the receipts from these
officers during the fiscal year to have been $296,489.07, which
is an increase of $17,968.52 compared with the preceding
year ; of this amount, the sum of $180,660.48 was paid into
the Treasury by the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of
Baltimore.

The revenue from the sale of Licenses, (included in the
Table referred to) reached the sum of $277,120.80, an increase
of $12,385.44 compared with 1858, and of $32,247.19 com-
pared with 1867; and largely exceeding the receipts on this
account in any former year.

The tax upon some grades of licenses appears to be heavier
than is required, and might be moderately reduced with safety
to the State and justice to the mercantile community.

The Clerks have generally settled their accounts with this
Department with great punctuality.

REGISTERS OF WILLS.

There was received into the Treasury during the, fiscal year
from this class of officers $60,868.92, exceeding the receipts
from the same source of the year preceding $6,561.96. Of
this amount, $35,064.64 was derived from the tax on Execu-
tory and Administrators, and $25,804.28 from the tax on col-
lateral inheritances.

The Comptroller has been compelled to institute a suit
against the official bond of the late Register of Wills of Bal-
timore city, for the sum of $12,491.81, the balance due on his
final return for the six months which ended the 1st of Decem-
ber, 1857. The requisite report was not submitted by him
at the proper time, but a large payment was made into the
Treasury; producing the impression that only a small amount
remained due, and a promise given that that should be for-
warded, accompanied by his account, in the course of a few
weeks. It was not done; and after repeated solicitations and
demands, he failed to comply. Finally, resort was had to
the books and records of the Register's office, and through