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Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, for the purpose of
deepening the channel in the Chesapeake Bay and Patapsco
River, below Fort McHenry.

BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAIL ROAD COMPANY.

The amount of the State's proportion of the receipts on
the Washington Branch of this Road, in the fiscal year, was,
$73,059.08, an increase as compared with the receipts in the
fiscal year ending the 30th of September 1855, of $5,086.69.

During the same period, the State received from this Com-
pany on Road Stock for dividends $67,315, being an increase
over the preceding year of $3,1,565. Of the sum received
$20,565 was for the "Main Stem," and $46,750 for the-
"Washington Branch." These figures indicate the rapidly
increasing prosperity of this magnificent Road.

SUSQUEHANNA AND TIDE-WATER CANAL COM-

PANIES.

By STATEMENT No. 10, it appears that these Companies
paid, during the fiscal year, $70,812.20; of which sum $67,-
100 was on account of, current interest, and $3,712.20 on ac-
count of interest on the unfunded debt due by the said Com-
panies.

NORTHERN CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPANY.
Within the fiscal year the State has received into the
Treasury the sum of $90,000, paid by this Company in ful-
fillment of its obligations wider chapter 260 of 1854.

TOBACCO INSPECTIONS,

By an examination of STATEMENT No. 11, the gross receipts
from State, Tobacco Inspections in Baltimore, will be found
to have been, in the year ended on the 30th of September
last, $56,568.91, (being $6,450.89 less than those of the pre-
ceding year,) and the expenses $47,706.11, (being $2,509.79
more than those of the year preceding,) leaving a nett balance
of $8,862.80.

STATEMENT No. 12, shows the returns of the several Tobacco,
Inspectors.

The Insurance upon the Tobacco Warehouses has been
regularly renewed.

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