BY THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES, Read and ordered to be printed. COMMUNICATION FROM THE TREASURER OF THE WESTERN SHORE, RELATIVE TO THE SUBJECT OF EDUCATION. In obedience to an Order of the House, 20th Jan. WESTERN SHORE TREASURY, Annapolis, Feb, 6th, 1843, To the Honorable, The House of Delegates; In obedience to their order of the 20th ultimo, the Treasurer presents the accompanying Statement, to shew the sources and the application of the several sums appropriated to the purposes. And is most respectfully, of education. Their obedient servant, GEORGE MACKUBIN, STATEMENT. The Banks in Maryland, and the American Life Insurance and Trust Company, as required by their respective charters, pay into the Treasury, annually, 20 cents on every hundred dollars of their capital paid in. This is denominated the Free Schools' Fund. Its amount last year was $26,419 1%%, 80 which was received and distributed as follows: (6 Union Bank of Maryland, 120 00 200 00 4,000 00 250 00 "Farmers and Mechanics' Bank of Frederick Co. 246 86 500 70 2,398 00 1,133 64 225 88 3,691 13 "Farmers and Planters' Bank of Baltimore, American Life Insurance and Trust Company, 1,200 85 4,000 00 "Chesapeake Bank, (Baltimore,) Farmers' Bank of Maryland, "Franklin Bank of Baltimore, 863 60 1,639 15 603 70 "Citizens' Bank of Baltimore, 667 88 66 Farmers and Merchants' Bank of Baltimore, 983 90 618 40 Commercial and Farmers' Bank of Baltimore, 1,025 12 |