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1320 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 29,
Snowden, McGlone, Brown,
Hance, Stewart, Rinehart,
Gwynn, Gill, Dashiell,
Neal, Loane, Gordy,
Purnell, Chaisty, Browning—40.
Onley,
NEGATIVE.
Messrs.
Turner, Fitzjarrell, Waters, of Dor.,
Lancaster, Dodson, Hinks,
Hooper, Lankford, Naill,
Baldwin, Gunby, Scott,
Whitelock, Ford, Farrow,
Given, Smith, of Dor., Ranger—18.
So the report was adopted.
Mr Snowden, Chairman of the Joint Committee on Section
24, Article 3, of the Constitution, submitted the following
REPORT.
To the Honorable the Senate and
House of Delegates of the State of Maryland:
The undersigned, the Joint Committee of the Senate and
House of Delegates, appointed under and by virtue of Article
3, Section 24, of the Constitution, and to whom was referred
amongst other subjects, the following order, adopted in the
House of Delegates, January 18th, 1876, viz : "And be it
further ordered, that they shall also examine into and fully
and searchingly enquire into the accounts and disbursements
of the Treasury Department, and the various departments
and officers doing business therewith, and ascertain whether
the expenditures and disbursements of said officers and de-
partments have been made in conformity with law," having
finished their investigations on this branch of their duty, beg
leave to report—
That they did, at a meeting of said Committee, appoint
five members of the same to conduct the paid investigation,
to wit: Messrs. Walsh, Lee, Neal, Lewis and Farrow, who
have bestowed much time on the investigation of the books
and papers of the Comptroller's Office, and at the instance
and request of the Comptroller, have gone over and cart-fully
examined all the expenditures from the 1st of January, 1870,
down tb the present time. This has been a work of much
labor to the Committee and has occupied much of the time
during the session that they could spare from their other
duties. The Committee found that all the expenditures have
been made strictly in accordance with law. They have also
examined the books of the Treasurer and find them to agree
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