xvi REPORT OF THE

these Bounties commenced in the year 1864, and many claims
are still seeking payment under the'law. I have paid but
one of them since I have been in office, and do not intend to
pay any except upon the most satisfactory proof; of course,
when that is presented, the Comptroller has no other alter-
native but to issue his warrant for the Bounty. All parties
entitled have had sufficient time to establish and receive their
bounties, and the law should by all means be repealed and
the further payment of these bounties be prohibited by the
next Legislature.

The law granting a State Pension to the soldiers and the
widows of soldiers of the War of 1812 was wisely repealed
by the last Legislature ; but the appropriation for the pay-
ment of pensions was continued, and I have been paying the
parties entitled up to tho time of tho repeal of the law April
1st, 1878.

The receipts of the Tobacco Warehouses are set forth in
Table No. 8, and amounted during the year to $124,032.03,
and the net earnings to only $2,627.32, not enough by
$12,372.68, to pay tho salaries of the Supervisor and In-
spectors. These must be paid out of the General Treasury
and the Tobacco Inspections are therefore a burthen to tho
State notwithstanding the large amount they pay to the
Warehouses. This ought not to be, and it is to be hoped,
that the next Legislature will either revise or repeal the
whole system.

The State Grain Weighing Department is required to be a
self sustaining institution and pays just as much money into
the Treasury as it draws out, affording but small salaries
to its officers. The receipts from this Department were
$6,469.25, and the disbursements for salaries a like sum.

The net earnings to the Treasury from the State Hay
Scales were $1,292.48, and from the Live Stock Scales
$13,911.22. (See Table 9.)

The last Legislature, to settle the controversy betweeu the
School-men and the late Comptroller, ratified and confirmed
the apportionments and distributions of the school tax rev-
enue that had been made by him, and to remove doubts as