Excerpt from Message of the Governor of Maryland, to the General Assembly: January Session, 1860 The near coincidence of these amounts, while they should prevent any other than necessary appropriations, indispone able for the public service, warns also against any immature reduction of the direct tax. After years of heavy impost, cheerfully borne, to respond to engagements, and uphold the the plighted faith of the State, a wise economy in the Legis ture, the gradual increase of wealth in the State, the develop ment of her resources and the activity of her citizens, enabled the General Assembly of 1856 to reduce the direct tax one third. It is now but one tenth of one per cent; an impost that is hardly felt, and upon a basis of taxation which, (ex cept in the city of Baltimore, where a new assessment has just been completed) confessedly does not represent the increased or new values of land, and of all other property. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.