COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY. vii

The Contingent or Expense Fund of the Comptroller
for the year, was $3,000. Of this, there was expended
for purposes set forth in Table No. 20, the sum of $1,-
056.50, and the balance of $1,943.50, remained unex-
pended.

The Contingent or Expense Fund of the Treasury De-
partment, was $2,000.00; the amount paid for purposes
set forth in Table No. 21, was $1,430.73, leaving an unex-
pended balance, of $570.27.

These balances revert to the Treasury, and are not car-
ried forward, as some people suppose, for future use.

The aggregate expenditures on account of the several
other Contingent or Expense Funds, for which appro-
priations were made, are set forth in "Statement B."

The stocks and bonds held by the State, to the credit
of the Free School Fund, amount to $302,149.78, and are
set forth in "Statement G." These are all prompt, in-
terest paying investments.

The other capital and credits of the State, are set forth
in "Statement J.," and are classified as productive and
unproductive. The productive embrace the amount due
from Tax Collectors and such securities as pay interest
or dividends. The unproductive includes such capital as
is in arrears. In the latter, is embraced stock in the Balti-
more and Fredericktown and in the Baltimore and York-
town Turnpike Companies. These Companies are fitful in
their payments. The most of the other Companies have
been in arrear for years, and many of them are worthless.

This is the last Report I am required to make to your
Excellency. Having submitted a brief review of some of
its leading features, I invite attention to important de-
tails set forth in the Statements and Tables appended,

Yery respectfully,

Your obedient servant,

THOS. J. KEATING,
Comptroller.