Thomas Burnside, of Centre Co., Joseph S. Cohen, P. C. Sedgwick, Charles P. Pleasants, Attorney-General, $300 and fees. Prothonotary for the Eastern District, Fees. 66 66 66 The judges of the Supreme Court appointed before 1843 have four dollars a day while engaged in holding court or travelling to and from the same. Those appointed since, and whose salaries are $1,600, have three dollars a day while thus engaged, as a full allowance for travelling expenses. They hold court in bank, once a year, in four several districts: - 1st, for the Eastern District, at Philadelphia; 2d, for the Middle District, at Harrisburg; 3d, for the Northern District, at Sunbury; 4th, for the Western District, at Pittsburg. District Courts. There are four District Courts, which are invested with the civil jurisdiction of the Common Pleas in their respective districts in all cases exceeding a certain amount. Salary. George Sharswood, Pres. Judge for City and Co. of Philadelphia, $2,000 For the sessions of this court, the State was formerly divided into 21 districts. Last winter, the number of districts was increased to 24. The following is a list of the judges. Districts. 1. Philadelphia, President Judges. Salary. $2,600 Judges, James Campbell, Anson N. Parsons, Wm. D. Kelley, each 2,600 Interest on unclaimed and outstanding certificates to be added to Add arrears of interest ($19,000) and guarantied interest on internal im provement companies ($ 32,500), . 51,500.00 Total interest for 1849, $2,039,042.99 The value of the productive property owned by the State in 1849 was $32,152,754.06. Total receipts during the year ending November 30, 1848, $3,831,776.22 Principal Items of Expenditure. Damages on public works, $26,453.10 12,784.86 $3,831,776.22 Common Schools. -The whole number of school districts in the State, exclusive of the city and county of Philadelphia, for the year ending June 5, 1848, was 1,306. Of these, 1,153 contributed to the support of schools, and 1,102 made reports. The whole number of schools was 7,845. The average number of months taught was 4.244. Number of male teachers, 6,065, at an average monthly pay of $ 17.37. Number of female teachers, 3,031, at an average monthly pay of $10.65. Number of male scholars, 197,984; of female scholars, 162,621. There were 6,931 studying German. The average number of scholars in each school was 44, and the cost of teaching each scholar per month, 45 cents. The amount of tax levied was $508,696.51; received from the State appropriation, $193,035.75; received from the collectors of the school tax, $392,442.56. The cost of instruction was $465,992.34; of fuel and contingencies, $ 39,513.63; of school-houses, repairs, &c., $ 96,539.47. James Booth, Kensey Johns, Jr., Amos H. Wickersham, of Wilmington, Attorney-General, Fees and 500 Chief Justice, $1,200 Associate Justice, 1,200 66 1,000 1,000 For statistics relating to schools, pauperism, and crime, see the American Almanac for 1849, page 257. The sessions of the Legislature are biennial. XI. MARYLAND. Government for the Year 1850. PHILIP F. THOMAS, the 1st Monday in Jan., 1851), of Talbot County, Governor (term expires Salary. The State is divided into six judicial districts, each comprising two, three, or four counties. For each district there are a chief judge and two associates, who constitute the County Courts for the respective counties in the district. These are the common law courts of original jurisdiction in the State; and they have jurisdiction of all claims for $50 and upwards, appellate jurisdiction from the judgment of justices of the peace, and equity jurisdiction within the counties, coextensive with the Chancellor. The six chief judges constitute the Court of Appeals for the State, which has appellate jurisdiction of cases at law and in equity, originating in the County Courts, the Orphans' Courts (of which there is one in each county), and the Court of Chancery. Baltimore city and county comprise one of the six judicial districts, of which Judge Frick is chief judge. The associate judges are John Purviance and John C. Le Grand. The stated salary of the associate justices is $1,500, and fees, which, in the Baltimore district, amount to as much more. FINANCES. The finances of Maryland are now in a most flourishing condition, and there is nothing foreseen which is likely again to throw a shade upon the credit of the State. All the resources which have been relied upon for revenue by those who projected and carried through the measures looking to the resumption of payments of the interest on the debt, and its entire liquidation hereafter by the accumulation of the sinking funds and surpluses, have more than realized the expectations formed. During the present year (1849) the Treasurer has been enabled, from surpluses in the treasury, to redeem one fourth part of the arrears of interest funded under the resumption act passed in March, 1847, thus discharging about $220,000 of the State debt; and there will be a balance in the treasury, December 1st, 1849, according to present receipts, of over $300,000. The direct tax is now cheerfully paid in every part of the State, and the revenue from indirect taxes has so much increased as to give flattering evidence of the growing wealth and prosperity of the citizens. The report of the Committee on Ways and Means, made at the last session of the Legislature, during the winter of 1847 - 48, demonstrated that the sum of $9,184,128, then in hand, would pay off the whole principal of the public debt, to provide for the interest of which it was necessary to lay taxes. This was based upon the receipts of that year, including the revenue derived from the public works. Since then, the debt has decreased, both by the operation of the sinking fund and by the surpluses, out of which the Treasurer has discharged one fourth of the arrears, while the income from the public works has considerably increased. The same report claims an annual surplus of $208,000 to be devoted to the extinction, first of the funded arrears, and then of the principal or main debt. This estimate has been more than realized, and there is but little doubt that, in the course of three years, the funded arrears will be entirely redeemed; and if the present taxes are continued for fifteen years, there will no longer be any need of taxation to pay the interest of so much of the debt as may then be unliquidated, as it will be amply provided for by the proceeds of the public works for whose account the greater part of the debt was incurred. The total nominal debt of Maryland is now about $ 15,900,000. Of this, about $1,900,000 is owned by the State as a sinking fund; and the interest on about $7,000,000 more is now |