and the amount received on account of the Public School Tax,
is shown by the following statement:
Receipts from all sources $2,681,592 20
Balance in the Treasury 30th Sept. 1864,... 876,899 33
$3,558,491 53
Disbursements, 3,125,565 53
$432,926 00
Add am’t to the credit of Free Schools Fund, 43,773 34
of Sinking Fund177,178 72

Total balance in Treasury 30th Sept. 1865,... $653,878 06
If, however, there be deducted from this amount, the balance
to the credit of the ‘‘Funds’’ and the Public School Tax, the
balance in the Treasury proper is $184,183.74.
There has been paid within the Fiscal Year, on account of
Bounties to Volunteers and others, the sum of $1,762,420.88,
exceeding the amount realized from loans by the sum of
$933,675.07, and the amount from both loans and the bounty
tax by the sum of $666,378.17. The total amount paid by
this Department to the 30th day of September 1865, for
bounties, is $3,044,089.78. The total amount realized from
loans, is $1,356,930.81, and from the bounty tax of ten cents
in each hundred dollars, is $460,495.80, leaving the balance
of $1,226,663.17 paid from the revenue derived from other
and ordinary sources, as will more clearly appear by reference
to Statement "K.’’
This result is the more striking when it is remembered that
the State Direct Tax is only five cents in each one hundred
dollars ; and also, that during the same period, the expenses
of the Constitutional Convention and one Session of the Gen-
eral Assembly have been paid, and large sums expended in
providing exchange for the payment of the Interest on the
Sterling Debt.
Under the provisions of chapter 49, of the Act of 1865,
amendatory of chapter 15, of 1864, a large number of addi-
tional rolls, embracing the Third Maryland Cavalry, and
parts of thirteen other Regiments of White Volunteers, and
the Second. Fourth, Seventh and Ninth Regiments of U. S.

Colored Troops, and parts of five others, have been certified
and returned to this Department. By the same Act the bonn-
tics were made payable directly from the Treasury, and not,
as before, through the agency of the County Commissioners
and City Register. The duties of this office were thus largely
increased. Not less than fifteen thousand claims have been
examined, many of which were incomplete or informal, and