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LICENSES, &c.

The revenue received from Clerks of Courts during the fiscal
year, for Licenses, Tax on Officers' Commissions and on Com-
missions of Trustees, and from License to dredge for Oysters,
is set forth, in detail in Table. No. 1, of the appendix, and
amounted to $451,653.90; which, sum, after deducting the
license issued to take and catch oysters, exceeds the amount
received during the previous year by $54,515.87, the year
1864 by $71,491.59, and the year 1863 by $101,560,44.—
These figures show a large and steady increase in the revenue
from this source.

Registers of Wills have paid into the Treasury for tax on
commissions of executors and administrators, and on collate-
ral inheritances, the sum of $60,048.49; being $1,419.80 less
than was received from the same source during the previous
year.

The returns and 'payments into the Treasury by Clerks of
Courts and Registers of Wills, have been promptly made.

RECEIPTS FROM PUBLIC WORKS.

There as received from the Northern Central Rail Road
Company, for the annuity due the State, the sum of $90,000;
and from the Susquehanna Canal Company, on account of in-
terest, the sum of $60,000;

The Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company paid into the

Treasury $760,088.70; a sum largely in excess of the amount
received in any previous year; which indicates the eminently
prosperous condition of this important public word, and its
able and successful management.

There is included in this amount, the sum of $180,000, re-

ceived on account of the $3,000,000 of Sterling Bonds, issued,
and delivered to this company by virtue of the Act of 1838,
chapter 386.

It was provided by the Act of 1835, chapter 395, that the
Treasurer should subscribe $3,000,000 to the capital stock of
the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company, which subscrip-