VI REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY.

making the aggregate in the Treasury during the fiscal year
$3,175,154.25

The amount of receipts into the Treasury for the fiscal j
year ended September 30, 1894, is greater than for the pre-
vious fiscal year by $72,492.19, notwithstanding the failure

of the Susquehanna and Tide Water Canal Company to pay
interest, amounting to $20,000.00, on the mortgage now held
by the State of Maryland against said company.

Reference to Statement A in Part I of the Appendix will
show that there has been received during the last fiscal year,
from interest on deposits of State funds, the sum of $5,613.64.
In my report to the General Assembly of 1894 I stated that
the Treasurer of the State, in selecting the depositaries for
State funds, had designated banks that were paying two per
cent, interest on State deposits, and that the amount received
from that source during the previous fiscal year aggregated
$2,490.11. I further said that I had reason to believe the sum
would materially increase in the succeeding fiscal year. It
has more than doubled, and the sum received during the last
fiscal year from that source is more than sufficient to pay the
salaries of the Treasury officers.

DISBURSEMENTS.

The total disbursements during the last fiscal year
amounted in the aggregate to the sum of $2,625,079.78. This
is greater than the sum of disbursements for the year ended
September 30, 1893, by $178,470.43. I need not remind you
that this excess is due to the payment of the expenses of the
General Assembly of 1894 and special appropriations made
by it. It is hardly a fair comparison when made between a
year with the , General Assembly in session and a year when
not in session. If compared with the fiscal year ended Sep-
tember 30, 1892, then you .will find the disbursements for the
past fiscal year are $440,753.24 less than for 1892. Whatever
influence you and the Treasury officers had with the General
Assembly of 1894 was exerted in behalf of retrenchment in
both general and special appropriations, and the result, I hope,
will be gratifying to all concerned.

There remained in the Treasury at the close of the fiscal
year ended September 30, 1894, the sum of $550,074,47. State-
ment B, of this Report, shows in detail the various purposes