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taught at said Institution is ninety-seven, fifteen of whom re-
ceive tuition gratuitously, of whom four are poor boys, who are
educated free of charge and furnished with the necessary
books and stationery at the expebse of the Institution.

The branches taught in the Institution are English,
French, Greek, Latin, Arithmetic, Book-keeping and Alge-
bra. Geometry and its application to Mensuration are
taught to such students as desire it, but no class of this last
named branch was formed the past year.

The teachers are gentlemen well versed in their respective
branches of instruction, and the whole Institution is under
excellent management.

We are happy in having it in our power to lay that under
the judicious patronage which has been extended to it by the
State, it is in a prosperous condition, and increasing yearly
in usefulness.

Respectfully submitted.
J. M. COALE,
J. D. RICHARDSON,
LOUIS MARKILL,

Visitors of St. John's Literary Institution.
FREDERICK, January, 1867.

Which was read and referred to the Committee on Edu-
cation.

On motion of Mr. Magruder,

Ordered, That the President of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company communicate to the House of Delegates
at as early a day as possible what amount of gross receipts
per annum the said Railroad Company baa received from
freight and charges from passengers and otherwise, com-
mencing on the 1st day of January, 1861, and ending 1st
January, 1867, over the line of the Washington branch of
said Railroad, and also on the main stem of said Road. Also,
if the said receipts on said Branch and main stem of said
Road have diminished since the war, what have been the
same yearly.

On motion of Mr. Evans,

Leave was granted the Cecil county delegation to introduce)
a bill to provide for the compensation of the Crier of the
Circuit Court for Cecil county;

Also, leave was granted the Committee on Corporations to
bring in a bill entitled, an Act to amend an Act entitled, an
Act to incorporate a Company for the purpose of cutting and
making a Canal between the River Delaware and the Cheapeake
Bay, passed at November session, 1799, chapter 16; and also to
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