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ture the probable demands for the fiscal year were estimated
at $974,694.00, but at the same time it was remarked that the
estimate therein made included "only the regular expenses of
the State Government, no margin being allowed for extra or
special appropriations." It is believed that the statement
then made would very nearly have approximated "the truth
but for the many and large appropriations which the Legis-
lature, in the exercise of its powers, deemed proper to make.
The immediate expenses of that Body amounted to the un-
precedented sum of $98,574.31. Of this amount the sum of
$39,544.87 was disbursed for printing, as follows : for Senate
printing $15,620.50; for printing for the House of Delegates,
$23,924.37. By an examination of the Journal of Accounts,
deposited in this Department, it appears that $1,361.35 were
paid to witnesses in " Contested Election Cases," and to wit-
nesses summoned to give testimony in other cases $775. By
an inspection of the same Journal it appears also that the sum
of $19,044.73, was paid to Committee Clerks and others em-
ployed by the Legislature.

Of the special appropriations made by the Legislature at
its last session, there was disbursed during the year, the sum
of $162,639.98; exclusive of the amount paid on account of
the appropriation for the purchase of arms for the State;
nor does it include the payments made to the Eastern Shore
Rail Road Companies. These companies received, as the
Appendix shows, $44,092.45, viz: to the Maryland and Del-
aware Rail Road 15,000; to the Eastern Shore Rail Road
$29,092.45. There are also a number of appropriations yet
remaining unpaid either wholly or partially.

STATEMENT B also shows that the sum remaining in the
Treasury at the close of the fiscal year was $255,587.75, sub-
ject however to certain charges therein enumerated, amount-
ing in all to $284,849.20, which, being deducted, would leave
a balance against the Treasury of $29,261.45.* So that if all
of those demands had been made on the first day of October,
1860, the Treasury would have been unable to meet them.

*This deficiency does not include several Special Appropriations which might
hare been called for before the close of the fiscal year, and which would swell the
real deficiency to a much larger sum.