582 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 26,

Vice Admiral D. D. Porter, commanding the Naval School
at this station.

The reasonable request which he makes, I trust, will be
received and acted upon in a liberal spirit by the General As-
sembly, in order that every facility may be afforded in ad-
vancing the interests of that valuable Institution. I would
respectfully suggest that a select committee be appointed by
your Honorable Body to confer with a similar committee from
the corporation of Annapolis, and that steps be promptly
taken to obviate any difficulty which now exists in reference
to the enlargement of the grounds of the Naval Academy.
I have the honor to be,

Your obedient servant,

THOS. SWANN

U. S. NAVAL ACADEMY,
ANNAPOLIS, Md., Feb. 23, 1867.

Sir :—I beg leave respectfully to submit for your consid-
eration an application to the General Assembly of the State
of Maryland, and request that you will take such action as
you may deem expedient to enable the Government of the
United States to procure the desired advantages as soon as
possible.

Very respectfully,

Your Obd't. Servant,

DAVID D. PORTER,
Vice Admiral and Supt. N. A.

To His Excellency THOS. SWANN, Governor of Maryland.

To the Honorable, the General Assembly

of the State of Maryland:

The undersigned begs leave to address your Honorable
Bodies in relation to a matter of vital importance to the
Naval Academy, of which he is Superintendent, and also to
the corporation in which the said Academy is situated. While
the State of Maryland set a most landable example in dispos-
ing of the Gubernatorial grounds, at small cost, for the ben-
efit of the Naval Academy, the same spirit was not mani-
fested by private parties, who, losing sight of the advantages
conferred upon the city of Annapolis by the location of the
Institution in its midst, have endeavored not only to impede'
the progress of the Academy by refusing to sell their property
at a fair valuation, but have located buildings alongside the