[Document  D.} 


BY  THE  HOUSE  OF  DELEGATES, 
January  15,  1846. 
Read  and  ordered  to  be  printed. 


REPORT 

*  BY    THE 

COMMITTEE  OF  CLAIMS. 

UPON   THE 

Accounts  ef  Dennis  Claude,  Treasurer  of  the  W.  Shore. 

From  1st  Dec.  1844,  to  1st  Dec.  1845. 
BY  THE  COMMITTEE  ON  CLAIMS. 


Your  Committee  report,  that  they  have  examined  the  proceedr 
ings  and  Documents  of  D.  Claude,  Treasurer  of  Marylarrd,  and 
fmd  from  an  account  settled  to  1st  December  1844,  by  the  Com- 
mittee of  Claims  of  the  last  General  Assembly,  there  then  re- 
mained in  the  Treasury,  one  hundred  aoad  eiglity-one  thousand, 
two  hundred  and  seventy-two  dollars. 

That  it  appears  to  your  Committee  by  the  accounts  of  the  said 
Treasurer,  he  has  received  from  Ist  December  1844,  to  1st 
December  1845,  $966,589,  viz  :  on  the  following  accounts  : 


Auction  Duties,  .... 

Auctiorjier's  Licenses, 

The  Baltimore  and  OKio   Rail  Road  Company — 

for  (he  !  of  their  receipts  from  Passengers  on  the 

Washington  Branch, 
The  Baltimore  and  Susquehanna  Rail  Road  Com 

pany — on  account  of  interest. 
Costs  of  Suits — repayments, 
Fines  and  Forfeitincs,    .... 
Indemnity  5  per  cent  stock— a  repaymeu,!, 
Interest  on  personal  accounts,     -  -  - 

Licenses  -granted    by  the   Clerks  of  the  Couiityi 

and  Balijjnore  city  courts, 
Licenses  gianted  by  the  Comnn'ssioners  of  Lotteries. 
The  liCgislature — repaymentB, 
Land  Otfice,       ...  .  . 

State's  Hoy  Scales  in  Baltimore, 

Carried  Forward, 


$18,058  23 
6.U.50  00 


38^699 


20,000  00 

55  40 

3,599  28 

6,742  28 

2,147  24 

03,518  75 

8,168  75 

23  30 

760  95 

694  92 

Brought  Forward, 

State's  Live  Stock  Scales  in  Baltimore,  - 

10,931  45 

State's  Pratt  Street  Wharf  in  Baltimore, 

446  04 

State's  Tobacco  Inspection  in  Baltimore, 

33,973  61 

Bank  Stock — for  dividends. 

31,516  33 

Road  Stock — for  dividends, 

48,265  00 

Sundry  Officers  of  the  Eastern  Shore,  - 

11,182  39 

Taxes  in  Chancery,       -             .             .             . 

356  34 

Tax  on  Civil  Comrnisaions, 

4,174  33 

Tax  on  Collateral  Inheritances,                           -  ^ 
Tax  for  Colonization     -             -             .             - 

503  12 

10,410  64 

Tax  on    the  Commissions  of  Executors  and  Ad- 

ministrators,  -             - 

28  97 

Tax  on   the  Commissions  of    Trustees  and  Re- 

ceivers,          .             .             -             -             . 

383  46 

Tax  on  Foreign  Insurances, 

1,889  04 

Tax  on  Plaintiffs,           .             .             >             . 

4,722  18 

Tax  on  Protests,             .... 

1,874  00 

Tax  on  Stamps,             .... 

12,511  33 

Taxes  use  of  the  State  Colonization  Society, 

1,476  27 

The  Susquehanna  and  Tide   Water  Canal  Com- 

panies,           -             -             -             -             - 

74,800  00 

The  Union  Manufacturing  Company  of  Maryland. 

800  00 

Overpayments, 

44  93 

The  Direct  and  Inccpne  Taxes  and  Tax  on  Officers, 

507,781  04 

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$966,589  00 

That  it  appears  to  your  Committee,  the  said  Treasvirer  has 
disbursed  in  the  same  time,  nine  hundred  and  forty-eight  thous- 
and, four  hundred  and  forty-eight  dollars  and  eighty-four  cents, 
viz  : 


(On  account  of 

Civil  Officers,  .... 

Colleges  and  Schools, 

Commission,-  ...  - 

Contingent  Expenses, 

Indian  Annuities,       .  .  .  . 

Interest  on  the  Public  Debt,  - 
Miscellaneous  Expenses, 
Maryland  Hospital,    -  -  ,  - 

Surplus  Revenue,  U.  S.  for  account  of  the  in- 
terest thereof,  for  Free  Schools, 
State  Colonization  Society,    - 
rtState  Colonization,     -  -  -  - 

.  pensions,       .  .  .  -  . 

(Carried  Forward, 


$11,847  19 

18,899  96 

5,038  14 

3,129  77 

66  66 

710,784  51 

11,712  97 

5,000  00 

34,069  36 
1,370  00 

10,000  00 
8,705  54 


Brought  Forward, 

On  account  of 

The  Annapolis  <Sc  Elkridge  Rail  Road  Company, 

3,855  21 

The  Indigent  Dear  and  Dumb, 

1,392  00 

The  Library,              .... 

509  35 

The  Mihtia,  -             -             -    ■         - 

1,788  34 

The  Judiciary,            -             -             .             . 

40,767  74 

The  Public  Buildings  at  the  Seat  of  Government, 

3,899  86 

The  State's  Tobacco  Warehouses  in  Baltimore, 

15,315  66 

State  Tobacco  Inspection  in  Baltimore, 

8,836  13 

The  Legislature,         .             .             -             . 

51,460  45 

$948,448  84 

For  all  of  which  payments  he  has  produced  to  your  Committee 
satisfactory  vouchers. 

That  it  appears  to  your  Committee,  there  remains  in  the  Trea- 
sury as  of  1st  December,  1845,  the  balance  of  one  hundred  and 
ninety-nine  thousand,  four  hundred  and  twelve  dollars  and  six- 
teen cents,  which  they  find,  stands  to  his  credit  as  Treasurer,  in 
the  Farmers'  Bank  of  Maryland,  and  that  it  is  subject  to  the 
following  appropriations,  to  Ist  December,  1845,  then  remaining 
unpaid,  viz  : 


For  Civil  Offices,       .... 

$1,938  33 

For  Colleges,  Academies  and  Schools, 

•  3,300  00 

For  Commission  to  Deputies    of  the   Attorney 

General,     -             .             -             -             . 

324  79 

For  Expenses  on  account  of  the  Blilitia, 

183  33 

For  Indian  Annuities, 

52  77 

For  the  Judiciary,     -             .             .             . 

6,595  00 

The  Journal  of  "Accounts  from  1839  to  1844, 

inclusive,    -                          -             - 

975  10 

For  the  creditors  of  the  Annapolis  and  Elkridge 

Rail  Road  Company, 

1,636  90 

The  Tobacco  Warehouse  Fund, 

39,450  00 

The  Tobacco  Warehouses  in  Baltimore,  on  ac- 

count of  the  Loan  of  1843, 

334  95 

The  Stale  Colonization  Society,  the  tax  far  their 

use,            - 

1,370  00 

For  the  Augmentation  of  the  Library, 

101  29 

For  Pensions,             .... 

3,043  87 

Interest  on  the  Public  Debt,  - 

1,376,871  24 

Amounting  to. 

SI, 436,1 77  57 

And   exceeding  (he  balance   in  the  Treasury    1st  December, 
1845,  hy  the  sum  of  $1,236,765.41. 


YolU"  Cominiltee  fuitlier  ropoiL,  that  they  have  also  examined 
the  proceedings  and  dociunents  of  the  said  Treasurer^  in  reference 
to  the  following  Funds  confided  to  his  care,  and  find  from  an 
account  settled  to  1st  December  1844,  by  the  Committee  of 
Claims  of  the  last  Greneral  Assembly,  there  then  remained  in  the 
Treasui^^  to  the  credit  of  those  Funds,  twenty-three  thousand  one 
hundred  and  six  dollars  and  thirty-one  cents,  in  cash. 

That  it  appears  to  your  Committee  by  the  accounts  of  the  said 
Treasurer,  lie  has  received  from  1st  December,  1844,  to  1st  De- 
cember, 1845. 

On  account  of  the  Free  School's  Fund,         -         -     63,518  77 
And  on  account  of  the  Sinking  Fund,     -         -         -     89,725  17 


Amounting  to    $1 53,243  94 

That  it  appears  to  your  Committee,  the  said  Treasurer  has  dis- 
bursed in  the  same  time,  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and  fifty-two 
thousand,  one  hundred  and  sixty-nine  dollars  and  thirty-eight 
cents  cash,  viz : 

On  accoimtof  the  Free  School's  Fund,  he  paid  to 
certain  counties,  &c.,  as  set  forth  in  the  accom- 
panying account  current,     -         -         -        -        -     63,767  69 
And  on  account  of  the  Sinking  Fund  he  paid  and 

invested, 88,401  69 

$152,169  38 


For   all  which   payments  and  investments  he  has  presented  to 
your  committee  satisfactory  vouchers. 

That  it  appears  to  your  Committee,  there  remains  in  the  Trea- 
sury as  of  1st  December,  1845,  to  the  credit  of  the  said  Funds  a 
balance  in  cash  of  twenty-four  thousand  one  himdred  and  eighty 
dollars  and  eighty-seven  cents,  and  this  sum  too,  they  find  stands 
to  his  credit  as  Treasurer,  in  the  Farmers'  Bank  of  Maryland. 
All  which  is  respectfully  submitted, 
By  order, 

J.  W.  RIDER,  Clerk. 


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