The valuation of the property of the state for 1879 was $466,470,995. Adding to this the stock and assets of corporations, estimated at $42,472,896, to total assessment for taxation amounted to $509,213,891. The average amount of tobacco received and shipped for the seven years ending Sept., 1878, was 52,758 hhds. per annum, or an aggregate of 369,306 hhds. The cost of the labor of handling and inspecting was $532,532. The estimated production of the Clearfield coal region for 1879 was about 1,600,000 tons, an increase over the previous year of 330,000 tons. The Cumberland region shipped 1,702,993 tons.
In 1875 there were in Maryland and the District of Columbia 1825 m. of railroad, cost ing with their equipment $57,318,219. The principal roads are: the Baltimore and Ohio, one of the four great trunk roads across the continent; the Annapolis and Elk Ridge; the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore; the Philadelphia and Balthnore Central; the Northeru Central; the Frederick and Pennsylvania; the Cumberland and Pennsyl vania; the Western Maryland, and the Southern Maryland.
The foreign commerce of the state is confined almost entirely to Baltimore. The imports for the year ending June 30, 1874, were valued at $29,302,311, the foreign exports at $179,598; domestic exports, $27,514,721. There were entered in Baltimore in 1870, from foreign countries, 355 American vessels, aggregating 124,584 tons burden, and employing 3,982 men and boys, and 345 foreign vessels, of 147,706 tons burden, and employing 5,023 men and boys. Clearances in the same year for foreign ports, 256 Ammican vessels, of 91,652 aggregate tons and manned by 3,006 men and boys; and 348 foreign vessels, of 154,917 tons burden, and employing 4,980 men and boys. The coast wise trade embraces oysters, which are taken in immense quantities in Chesapeake bay. Not less than 15,000,000 bush., mostly canned or in jars, are shipped annually, repre senting a value of from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000. Flour, grain, tobacco, coffee, refined sugar, molasses, cotton, coal, wool, hides, leather, provisions, guano, naval stores, iron, whisky, fish and canned fruits are also among the articles which enter largely into the coastwise and internal traffic. In the year ending June 30, 1874, 1943 steamers engaged in this branch of commerce, and aggregating 1,588,958 tons, entered the ports of the the state. Number of sailbag vessels in 'the same trade, 414. The clearances of vessels
in the same trade during the same year were: steamers, 2,046, sailing vessels. 348. The total of entrances and clearances was 4,781 vessels, of 3,308,703 tons burden, and manned by 94,170 men. The value of the exports from Baltimore in 1877 was $39,815,286. The shipments of petroleum in 1876 amounted to 40,812,598 gals.
The number of national banks in 1874 was 33, with an aggregate capital of nearly $14,000,000; and an outstanding circulation of over $9,000,000. In 1835 there were also 13 state banks, with a capital of nearly $4,000,000; also 5 savings banks, with deposits of over $17,000,000, and 22 private banks. In 1878 there were 13 fire insurance com panies, all in Baltimore, their premiums in the state amounting to $439,577.29, sind their losses to over $68,000. There was also in Baltimore one marine insurance company, premiums $24,000, losses $10,000. There were also in the state 15 mutual insurance companies, premiums nearly $123,000, losses $91,000. Number of fire and marine insurance companies of other states doing business in Maryland, 101—premiums nearly $850,000, losses over $430,000. There were 2 Maryland life insurance companies—pre miums $104,000; payments to policy-holders nearly $85,000; 26 life insurance companies of other states, premiums over $1,000,000, payments $1,033.000. The aggregaM capital of all the joint-stock insurance companies of the state was $2,728,855; aasets, $5,446,996; liabilities, $3,816,843. The 15 mutual fire insurance con:OA:deg had aSsets amounting', to nearly $4,000,000, while their liabilities were over $166,000, The debt of the state, on which interest has to be provided, is a little short of $8,000, .000. The receipts of the state treasury for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1879, were 42,126,326; iu treasury before, $204,163; total, $2,320,491; diebursements, $1,774,283; halance in treasury, $556,208.
The population of Maryland has increased steadily from the firat, In 1790 it was 319,728; in 1850, 583,034; in 1870, 780,894, of whom 175,391 were colored; in 1880, 934,63'2. The number of church organizations in 1870 was 1420, of church edifices 1389; amount of church property, $12,038,650. The principal denominations were Baptists (including .Mennonites, Tunkers, etc.), Episcopalians, Methodists, Roman Catholics, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Friends, German Reformed, and United Brethren in Christ.