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sary to take the entire proceeds of their inspections for this
purpose. The law, although somewhat obscure, does not
seem to admit of this interpretation, and therefore the claim
was not allowed. The provisions of the Act, however, should
be made more explicit.

MARYLAND CONSOLIDATED LOTTERIES.

The receipts into the Treasury from this source during the
year were $25,500.

The contractor is indebted to the State in the sum of
$12,500, the amount of the last quarterly instalment, which
should have been paid in the month of April, at which time
his contract expired. Being duly notified, he refused to make
his final payment, upon the ground, as he alleged, that he
had been subjected, as contractor, to certain costs and ex-
penses of suits, from which the State, under the contract, was
bound to save him harmless. The Comptroller, upon exami-
nation, finding nothing in the terms of the contract to warrant
such a construction, directed the State's Attorney of Balti-
more city to institute suit, without delay, and to prosecute
the same, with diligence and effect, to judgment and execu-
tion, or until the demands of the State should be satisfied.

FOREIGN INSURANCE COMPANIES.

The Agents of Foreign Insurance Companies paid into the
Treasury, for licenses, during the fiscal year, $14,800, an in-
crease of $6,500 compared with those of 1858. Table No. 10
contains the names of the Agents, and the several sums paid
by each on this account. The State, as it was predicted, is
now realizing quite a handsome revenue from this source.—
The law, however, is doubtless violated to some extent, and
might be amended and rendered more effective by authorizing
the licenses to be issued by the clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas, and the blanks to be prepared by the Comptroller, as
is done in the case of other licenses; or a State agent might