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which the application for license is made. When the stock of goods
is not located within .the State, I recommend that a license to sell by
sample, in the city of Baltimore and the several counties of the State,
be granted by the several Clerks, on the payment of one hundred dol-
lars for one year, on blanks to be furnished by the Comptroller as
Other license blanks are furnished.

The receipts from Registers of Wills during the fiscal year, as
shown by Table No. 2, foot up the sum of $106,147.49, being an in-
crease of $15,890.75 over those for the year 1872.

With few exceptions, the Clerks and Registers have rendered their
accounts and made their payments with punctuality, according to law.

Table No. 3, shows the amount paid into the Treasury for direct,
bounty, public school, southern relief, deaf and dumb and hospital
loan taxes for the fiscal year, to be. $715,664.81, exhibiting a diminu-
tion from the receipts of 1872, from same taxes, of $23,997.01. Tins
is owing to the repeal of the direct tax, which has, of course, sensibly
affected the collections of the fiscal year, and will affect those of sev-
eral years to come. A large proportion of the collectors have made
satisfactory payments and returns, evincing an earnest effort to com-
ply with their duties. A few of them, however, have almost entirely
failed to pay, according to law, and suits have been ordered on their
bonds.

Table No. 4, exhibits the receipts into the Treasury, from licenses to
auctioneers in the city of Baltimore, amounting to $7,150. By
the Act of 1872, Chap. 249, the auction duties are made payable to
the Comptroller of Baltimore City, and only the excess over twenty
thousand dollars is payable into the State Treasury. No receipts
from auction duties have accrued to the Treasury of the State, since
this Act went into effect.

Table No. 5, exhibits the receipts during the fiscal year, from divi-
dends and interest paid by Railroad and Canal Companies, amounting
to $265,284 48. The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company, has
paid no dividends into the Treasury during the fiscal year. The
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, has paid nothing during the
fiscal year on account of receipts from passengers on their Washington
Branch Road, as stipulated in their charter. As the State is very
largely interested as a stockholder in that branch road, and as a rival
branch road bas been chartered by the State, without any stipulation
in its charter for payment of any portion of its receipts from passen-
gers , it is submitted that the State's interest, as a stockholder, as well
as common justice, would indicate the propriety of releasing the Com-
pany from any farther payment under that stipulation, so soon as the