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Sn the Union in amount of shipping, [n 1815, the number of tons was 156,062,and in 1828, it was 170,948.

In 1832 there were 23 cotton manufactories in this state, with an aggregatecapital of S2,144,000, which make annually 7,640,000 yards of cloth.

The Baltimore and Ohio Rail-Road , which Baltimore and onto rail road.is to extend from the city of Baltimore to the s as ^ s 3 §

river Ohio , about 350 miles, is finished to the “ “ * ~ ~

Point of Rocks, and is the greatest enterpriseof the kind undertaken in America .

The Baltimore and Susquehanna Rail-Roadis to extend from the city of Baltimore toYork-haven, in Pennsylvania .

The number of banks and branches in this state in 1831, was eighteen, nineof which were in the city of Baltimore .

The principal literary seminaries in this state are the University of Maryland , St. Mary’s College, and Baltimore College, in Baltimore ; E<luCilllon 'and St. John’s College, at Annapolis . There are several academies in the state,which receive $800 a year from the state treasury. A law in favor of primaryschools was passed in 1825, and has been partially carried into effect in two orthree of the counties. The state has a School Fund consisting of a sum ad-vanced by Maryland during the late war and paid by the national government,amounting to $75,000, together with a tax on bank capital of 20 cents on $100.The fund is at interest, and the amount received from the banks has also gen-erally been placed at interest, to the credit of the several counties; but in someinstances it has been expended for its proper object. The intention of the stateU'as, that it should bo used to pay teachers only ; and that the expense of build-ing school-houses, and other expenses, should be paid by a tax on propertywithin the several school districts.

The number of periodical presses in 1830 was 25.

The Roman Catholics are the most numerous sect of Christians in Re)i g iou ,this state; they have one archbishop, the metropolitan of the United cienomina-States, and 30 or 40 churches; the Methodists are numerous; the tlons 'Episcopalians have 57 ministers; the Presbyterians, 11 ministers, 6 licentiates,and 1,058 communicants; the Baptists , 15 churches, 12 ministers, and 680communicants; the German Reformed, 9 ministers; and the Friends are con-siderably numerous.

This country' was granted by Charles I. to George Calvert , lordBaltimore , a Roman Catholic ; the first settlement was formed by his Hl3tor} -son Leonard Calvert , together with about 200 Catholics , in 1634; and it wasnamed Maryland , from Henrietta Maria , the queen of Charles .

The constitution of this state was formed in 1776; since which Con _ titutiontime many amendments have been made. The legislative power is and govern-vested in a senate, consisting of 15 members, and a house of dele- ment 'gates, consisting of 80 members ; and these two branches united are styledThe General Assembly of Maryland.

The members of the house of delegates, four from each county, are electedannually by the people, on the first Monday in October; and the members ofthe senate are elected every fifth year on the third Monday in September, atAnnapolis , by electors who are chosen by the people on the first Monday' of thesame month of September. These electors choose by' ballot nine senators fromthe Western Shore, and six from the Eastern, who hold their office five years.

The executive power is vested in a governor, who is elected annually on thefirst Monday in January 7 , by a joint ballot of both houses of the general assem-bly. No one can hold the office of governor more than three years succes-sively, nor be eligible as governor until the expiration ofifour rears after he has

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