COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY. 13
The amount paid for Direct, Bounty, Public School,
Southern Relief, and Deaf and Dumb Asylum taxes for
the fiscal year, as appears at large in Table No. 3, is
$693,905.17—a slight increase over the amount received
in the preceding year.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has paid promptly
into the Treasury the dividends on the State's stock in the
main stem and Washington Branch, the former amounting
to $40,000.00 and the latter to $55,000.00, and the inter-
est on the sterling and converted bonds issued to them
amounting to $113,640.00, as will appear by Table No. 5.
This Company has paid nothing during the fiscal year
on account of the one-fifth receipts from passengers on the
Washington Branch, nor has any Report been made of
the amount due.
Tbe Northern Central Railway Company lias promptly
paid into the Treasury, the annuity of $90,000.00 due the
State from that Company. The Susquehanna and Tide-
Water Canal Companies have paid the sum of $48,450.00,
part of the amount due.
The latter companies having failed to comply with the
requirements of the Acts of 1865, chapter 196, and 1866,
chapter 5, step shave been taken to compel the payment
of the com-
panies, and the Attorney General has been requested by
the Board of Pulic Words, to aid in the prosecution of
the suits for that purpose. :
INCORPORATED INSTITUTIONS.
The receipts into the Treasury for taxes paidjby Incor-
porated Institutions, during the fiscal year as given in de-
tail in'Table No.7, amounted to $59,867.21. This sum
is very far short of the amount due from Institu-
tions, and the payments made by them are, in many cases,
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