T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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ing the comptroller's report, six hundred dollars; to
the expense of distributing bound copies of the Mary-
land reports, to the clerks and registers of wills of this
State, fifty dollars; to the executive for the contingent
fund, provided in the constitution, to be placed at his
disposal, six thousand dollars; to the contingent fund
for the library, including the expense for binding books,
of lights, porterage and freights, of stationery, of menial
service and assistance, of advertising and printing, and
of all other incidental expenses, one thousand three
hundred dollars; to special judges, appointed in pursu-
ance of the twenty-second section of the fourth article
of the constitution, three thousand five hundred dollars;
to the contingent expenses of the treasury department,
one thousand dollars; to the printing of blank licenses
for the comptroller, eight hundred dollars; to the pay-
ment of the interest on the public debt of this State,
that is to say, the interest falling due quarterly on the
currency debt of the State, four hundred and ten thou-
sand two hundred and fifty dollars; and to the interest on
the public debt falling due semi-annually, and payable in
London, including costs of exchange, remittances and
commissions, two hundred and sixty-seven thousand

seven hundred and fifty dollars; Provided, however,
that all that portion of the interest on the public debt
which at any time during the year ending on the first
day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, shall
be due on that part of said debt, which may constitute
the sinking fund of the State, shall be applied by the
treasurer to the purchase of stock or bonds of the State
for the increase of the said funds, to the payment of the
interest falling due on the first day of July, in the year
eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and on the first day of
January, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-six, on
the bonds or certificates of debt of the Annapolis and
Elkridge Rail Road Company, issued in pursuance of
chapter one hundred and sixty-eight, of eighteen hun-
dred and forty-one, and to the payment of so much of
the principal of said bonds or certificates of debt as is direc-
ted to be paid by the said act, seven thousand dollars; Pro-
vided however , that only so much thereof shall be applied
as may be equal to the nett profits of said Annapolis and
Elkridge Rail Road Company , and the profits which
this State shall or may have derived from the use of the
Annapolis and Elkridge Rail Road in connection with
the Washington branch of the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road, and which said profits shall or may have been paid
into the treasury, as required by the aforesaid act of
eighteen hundred and forty-one, chapter one hundred

Provisoes.