X REPORT OF THE

trailer's office, since the establishment of the system of free public
schools, maintains the correctness of the view which has been taken.
I will say, however, before passing from this subject, that only a
very few of the Boards of County School Commissioners appear to
have entertained the theory referred to ; all the communications on
the subject, that have come to my knowledge, having emanated, I
believe, from the same Boards who have recently addressed your
Excellency on that subject.

STATE BOUNTIES.

Statement "M" exhibits in detail, the amounts paid for State
Bounties from 1864, to the end of the fiscal year 1876, with the Acts
of Assembly under which the same have been paid. The amount
expended under this head, during the fiscal year, was $2,925.00.

PENSIONS.

The amount expended during the fiscal year, in payment of pen-
sions, was $36,040.00, being less then the sum expended in 1875,
by the sum of $4,280.00.

The Act of 1876, chapter 320, directs that pensions shall be paid
to a number of persons mentioned in the Act, "provided, that all
claimants shall show, to the satisfaction of the Comptroller, that
their names were properly on the pension list, or were accidentally
omitted or misspelled;" and provided, also, "that the claimants, if
soldiers, shall prove that they served in the war of 1812 and 1814; and
if widows, that their husbands served in said war from this State,''
and also in case of widows, "that they were married at the time, or.
within five years after the close of the war," &c. This Act was ev.
idently intended to cure the defects in the Act of 1870, chapter 477,
in which many of the names were misspelled in such manner as to
be incapable of recognition, and which Act was, at the time of its
passage, intended to embrace the names of all those previously on
the pension list of the State. The evident intention of the Act of
1876, was not to enlarge the pension list beyond what it was prior
to the passage of the Act of 1870. Under the advice of the Attor-
ney-General, however, pensions have been allowed under the Act of
1876, to the widows whose names are mentioned in said Act, and
Whose husbands were formerly cm the pension list, and received
pensions; where such widows could furnish the evidence required,
and could comply with the other provisions of said Act.

DETAILS OF REVENUE.

The accompanying tables give the receipts into the Treasury,
during the fiscal year from various sources.