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in conformity with the requisitions of the law
on that subject. The sum remaining in the trea-
sury, on the first day of the present month, (the
end of our fiscal year,)is very nearly the same as
at the end of the last year, although payments
to a considerable amount have been made for ci-
ther purposes than the ordinary current demands
of the year.

In the course of ihe summer we caused fur-
furher examination to be made into the accounts
of expenditures during the late war, and obtain-
ed an allowance and payment by the United
States, of $10,424, 49 cents on account of prin-
cipal, and $4,980 59 cents interest on that sum,
making together 815,405 8 cents. A conside-
rable balance yet remains unliquidated fur want
of vouchers.

The foreign relations of the country and ma-
ny other important concerns, deeply interesting
to the people of Maryland, in common with
those of our sister states, being committed by
the Constitution of the United States to the su-
perintendance and management of the national
authority; and having full confidence in the abil-
ity, experience, patriotism and integrity of the
Distinguished statesmen to whom that authority
is confided, we shall not step from our limited
sphere of action, to examine minutely into those
general concerns.

We have the gratification of knowing, gene-
rally, that we are in the enjoyment of peace with