REPORT. BY THE COMMITTEE OF CLAIMS. Your committee report that they have examined the proceedings and documents of George Mackubin, Treasurer of the Western Shore of Maryland, and find from an account settled to 1st Dec. 1841, by the Committee of Claims of the last General Assembly, there then remained in the treasury ninety-one thousand four hundred and seventy-eight dollars and thirty-three cents-that it ap pears to your committee, by the accounts of the said treasurer, he has received from 1st Dec. 1841, to 1st Dec. 1842, $542,909 77 cents, viz: by the commissioners of lotteries, Miscellaneous expenses-for repayments, Road stock-for dividends, 67,966 44 6,000 00 305 25 27,752 50 Taxes on foreign insurances, Taxes on plaintiffs, The Annapolis and Elk Ridge Rail Road Co. The Baltimore and Susquehanna Rail Road Co. The direct tax, The Eastern Shore Treasury, The inspection of plaster of paris, The Land Office, The State's hay scales in Baltimore, The State's live stock scales in Baltimore, 20,984 03 296 25 1,376 27 565 53 2,309 37 622 71 1,045 61 $542,909 77 That it appears to your committee the said treasurer has disbursed in the the same time, the sum of five hundred and seventyfive thousand five hundred and twenty-nine dollars and eighty for schools, Pensions, State tobacco inspection in Baltimore, Surplus revenue for acc't of the interest thereof. - The Annapolis and Elkridge Rail Road Co. The Baltimore and Susquehanna Rail Road Co. The Chesapeake Steam Towing Co. The indigent deaf and dumb, 512 00 4,893 64 12.609 54 2,078 94 38,492 43 12,208 43 10,000 00 7,800 00 20,442 99 The Judiciary, The Legislature, The Library, The Maryland Hospital, 53,776 56 704 47 5,000 00 2,838 26 10,000 00 10,195 51 928 50 The State's tobacco warehouses in Baltimore, The tobacco inspection fund for P. George's Co. 2,371 60 714 36 $575,529 87 For all of which payments he has produced to your committee satisfactory vouchers. That it appears to your committee there remains in the treasury, as of 1st Dec. 1842, the balance of fifty-eight thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight dollars and twenty-three cents-which they find stands to his credit as treasurer, in the Farmers Bank of Maryland-and that it is subject to the following charges to that day, then remaining unpaid, viz: For civil officers, For colleges, academies and schools, For com. certain deputies of the Attorney General, For Indian annuities, For pensions, For the Judiciary, $3,450 00 1,400 00 222 81 483 33 77 60 2,856 18 6,783 33 For the journals of ac'ts from 1839 to 1841 inclusive, For the tobacco insp. fund fór P. George's Co. 5 per cent. stock, For the State Colonization So.-taxes for their use, For so much of the appropriation for 1842 to augment the Library, For loans of 1841, For interest on them, For the advance of the Messrs. Baring, 237 35 2,557 27 10,705 39 296 25 208 30 742 52 For interest on the public currency stock debt, 66 on the sterling And exceeding the balance in the Treasury, 1st Dec. 1842, by the sum of $890,532 29 cents. Your committee further report, that they have examined also the proceedings and documents of the said treasurer, in reference to the several funds confided to his care, and find from an account settled to 1st December 1841, by the committee of claims of the last General Assembly, there then remained in the Treasury, to the credit of the free schools' fund and the sinking fund, thirty thousand three hundred and forty-two dollars and sixty-nine cents cash. |