XXII REPORT OF THE

After considerable discussion over the matter in com-
mittee, the session expired without anything being
done. The usual appropriation for Inspectors' salaries
was passed, and there remains nothing for this Depart-
ment to do, after seeing that the expenditures are legal
and proper, but to pay the money.

It is proper to state in this connection that Warehouse-
No. 5 furnishes a notable exception to what I have
stated, as well as a striking illustration of what is pos-
sible to be accomplished in the management of these
warehouses. Although its gross receipts were less than
some of the others, it paid all expenses and returned to
the Treasury a sum more than sufficient to pay the In-
spector's salary.

PUBLIC SCHOOL TAXES.

"Statement L,' gives the levy, receipts and disburse-
ments on account of the Public School Taxes from the
year 1865 to 1886, inclusive.

The receipts on this account for the fiscal year 1886,
amount to the sum of $517,702.93, being $11,291.09 less
than for the year 1885, while the disbursements for the
fiscal year, 1886, amount to the sum of $486,387.36, being
$22,553.56 less than for the year 1885.

The Act of Assembly of 1878, chapter 91, requires the
Comptroller to equalize as far as may be possible, the
sums to be apportioned so as to apportion and dis-
tribute the same amount as far as may be practicable
at each distribution.

In the execution of this law, 1 established a stand-
ard by which the distributions could be equalized with
certainty. After running through the year 1885 and
into 1886, when I made up the June and last distribu-
tion for that year, we were short of the amount required
by the sum of $26,654.37.

When I made the next distribution which was in
October last, I not only distributed the usual amounts
according to the standard fixed, but also gave to the
schools in addition the amount of the deficiency in the
June distribution.