viii REPORT OP THE COMPTROLLER OP THE TREASURY.

It must also be borne in mind that before the passage of
this Act the salaries of the five Inspectors were paid
directly from the State Treasury, and of course were not
included in the disbursements of the Warehouses, but now
they are paid from the receipts of the Warehouses.

"Table No. 9" shows the receipts from State Hay
Scales, State Live Stock Scales, State Wharves and
Weighers of Grain, amounting to $5,811.95.

"Table No. 10 " gives the receipts from Notaries Public
for tax on protests, amounting to $8,699.25.

"Table No. 11 " gives the receipts from Sheriffs on
account of excess of fees, interest, fines and forfeitures,
amounting to $1,864.94.

"Table No. 12" gives the revenue from licenses to
Foreign Insurance Companies for fiscal year 1891, amount-
ing to $84,540.87, an increase over the year 1890 of
$19,216.60.

" Table No. 13 " shows in detail the amounts of State
taxes for 1891 remaining uncollected in the hands of Col-
lectors in the several counties and city of Baltimore at the
close of the fiscal year 1891, aggregating $418,050.28.

"Table No. 14 " gives the balances due from collectors
for years previous to 1891, amounting to $205,550.75.

"Table No. 15 " shows balances due from Sheriffs for
various years previous to and including 1891, amounting
to $23,336.61.

"Table No. 16 " gives the balances due from Clerks of
Courts, Registers of Wills and other officers, amounting to
$7,083.06.

"Table No. 17" gives the amounts due from various
corporations for State tax upon the shares of their capital
stock, aggregating $97,189.29.

A large percentage of this amount is due upon claims of
long standing and utterly worthless. I have employed
special attorneys, as authorized by the Act of 1888, Chapter
537, to assist in collecting these claims, but they report a
great many due from companies either out of existence or
insolvent. A list of such claims will be presented to your
Honorable Body, and such action requested as will enable
this Department to drop these worthless items.

"Table No. 18" shows amounts due from Railroad
Companies and other corporations for State tax upon their
gross receipts, as assessed under Chapter 559, of the Acts of
1890, aggregating $7,528.46. The payment of these claims
has been resisted, upon the ground that the law authoriz-
ing the assessment is unconstitutional. The Attorney-