1867.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 381

Plastering.... ....................... 4,000 00

Plumbing and heating............ 10,000 00 32,500 00

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$137,710 00

Besides a large amount of money for gas pipes and fixtures,
grading, which will be most expensive, as the building is ten
feet above the paving line, and has one half of four streets
to grade, paving, stone walls to support banks not cut away,
lightning rods, and many extra expenses always incidental
to the completion of a building. When to these is added the
cost of furniture, it must be acknowledged that the amount
required for the whole cost, $150,000, is rather an under than
an over estimate.

The total amount of State appropriation to this building is
$50,000. A further appropriation of $30,000 will make the
subscription of the State about one half of the whole cost*

The work is not only ornamental and useful but very cred-
itable in every way to the State, and it is one the cost of
which, in many States, would be defrayed entirely from pub-
lic funds.

Your Committee recommend the appropriation by the State
of thirty thousand dollars for this most needy public building.

JAMES C. CLARKE, Chairman.
THOMAS GORSUCH,
ISAAC D. JONES,
S. G. ISRAEL.

The undersigned, a member of the Committee; did not visit
the building, but concurs in the above report.

PHILIP F. THOMAS.

Also, reported favorably a bill entitled, an Act to amend
the 43d section of Article 3 of the Code of Public Local
Laws relating to summoning of jurors in Baltimore county;

Which was read a first time.

Also, the hill entitled, an Act to enable the Directors of
the Maryland Institution for the Instruction of the Blind
to complete and render fit for occupation the building now in
course of erection in Baltimore county;

Which was read a first time and referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means.

On motion of Mr. Williams,

The rules being yet further suspended,

The vote by which the order granting the use of the Hall
of the House to the Rev. S. V. Leach, on Monday evening
next, 18th inst., was rejected,