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ceipts of 1867. This partly arises from two causes, the short-
ness of the crops and the charge by weight instead of mea-
sure as formerly.

The receipts from "Inspections of Tobacco" during the last
Fiscal Year, amount to $45,912.01, showing a deficit of
$9,137.80, compared with the previous year. Amount paid
for Salaries of Inspectors, Insurance, ground-rent and auction
room $18,534.60, leaving to the credit of the "Tobacco Fund"
$27,378.01. The short Maryland crop and the large quantity
of Pennsylvania and Ohio Tobacco still held in store, the In-
spectors assign as a reason for the diminished receipts from this
source.

From "Inspectors of Flour," the sum of $19.81 has been
received as an excess of fees. I have used every exertion in
my power to make this Office a source of revenue, without
success thus far. I see no reason to change the opinion ex-
pressed to the Legislature one year ago, and still hope that
something may be done to prevent the absorption of the
entire receipts.

EASTERN SHORE RAIL ROADS, &c.

Subscriptions have been made by the Treasurer to the seve-
ral ''Eastern Shore Rail Roads," that have complied with
the provisions of Ch. 303 of 1860, and an amount equal to
the private subscriptions paid, to wit :
To the Bohemia Bridge Company, (being the bal-
ance due to that Company....................... $10,584 66

To the Dorchester and Delaware Rail Road...... 60,000 00

" " Kent and Queen Anne's Rail Road........ 20,000 00

" " Wicomico and Pocomoke Rail Road, the

full balance due this Company.............. 32,101 00

MILITIA.

There has been paid for the expense of arming and equip-
ping the Militia of the State during the last "Fiscal Year,"
exclusive of the salaries of the Adjutant General, his clerk,
and the State Armorers, $219,095.43, and since the close of ;
of the "Fiscal Year" the further sum of $68,565.63. This-
includes all the bills for arming and equipping the militia ex-