REPORT

OF THE

Comptroller of the Treasury

OF THE
STATE OF MARYLAND.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,

ANNAPOLIS, December 24th, 1910.

To His Excellency, Austin L. Crothers, Governor of Maryland:
In pursuance of Section 9 of Article 19 of the Code of Public
General Laws, I beg to submit herewith my annual report,
giving in detail a statement of the funds and revenues of the
State for the fiscal year ended September 30th, 1910.

RECEIPTS.

During the fiscal year there was received into the Treasury
proper, as shown in Statement "A," the sum of $5,875,598.65,
to which must be added the cash balance on hand September
30th, 1909, of |1,328,069.66, aggregating the sum of $7,203,-
668.31. The receipts proper, however, of $5,875,598.65 show an
increase of $475,493.96, mainly from the following sources:

High Liquor Licenses, Baltimore City. .	1910	$1,526,797.28
	1909	1,279,756.68
			$247,040.60
State Roads Loan ... .................	1910	$776,904.00
	1909	640,830.00
			136,074.00
Tax on Gross Receipts of Corporations.	1910	$690,121.46
	1909	642,385.59
			47,735.87
Tax on Collateral Inheritances........	1910	$293,993.77
	1909	257,089.17
			36,904.60
Increase ........................			$467,755.07

A closer examination, however, of the above figures will show
that only $146,400.62 of this increase is beneficial to the general