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counties, have been settled since the close of the fiscal year.
The accounts of collectors, in default in the counties, have
been sent to the several State's Attorneys, with instructions
to enforce the payment of the same by suit.

Table "No. 16" exhibits a list of balances due, at the end
of the fiscal year, from sheriffs in various counties, from
1848 to 1876, inclusive, amounting to $27,415.16, exclusive
of interest .

Table "No. 17" exhibits the balances due from Clerks of
Courts, Registers of Wills, and other officers therein named,
at the close of the fiscal year, amounting to $87,748.30.—
Several of these balances have been settled since the close of
"the fiscal year, and are so marked in the table.

This table also shows, the ascertained, and estimated
amounts due from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company,
at the close of the fiscal year, from" the State's one-fifth of
the receipts from passengers on the Washington Branch, the
amount, ascertained by judgments, being $882,294.62, and
the portion estimated, being $150,000.00, both amounts
exclusive of interest. The judgments against the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company have been appealed from, and
the appeals are now pending in the Supreme Court of the
United States.

Table "No. 18" exhibits in detail, the amounts due from
sundry Incorporated Institutions, ior State -Taxes on their
Capital Stock, amounting to the sumi of $66,645.59 exclu-
sive of interest.

Table "No. 19" exhibits in detail, the payments on
account of special appropriations, during the fiscal year,
with the Acts of Assembly, by which they have been respec-
tively directed to be made, amounting in the aggregate to

$15,281.45.

NEW ASSESSMENT

Table "No. 21" exhibits, under appropriate heads, the
amount of the valuations of property in the several Counties,
and City of Baltimore, made by the Assessors, and Boards
of Control and Review, in. pursuance of the Act of January
Session, 1876, Chapter 260, as returned to the County Com-