1867.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES 629

ner, Coleman,Neilson,Robson, Hooper, Israel Boswell, Davis,
of Balt, city, Waltemeyer, Feig, Bixler, Pitts, Aydelott,
Gordy, Nelson, Whiteford, Wilson, Spicer, McCulley, Bruce,
McCnlloh, Devecmon, Neale, Criswell, Dawson, Horsey,
Hammond—54.

Mr. Ford from Select Committee (the rules being sus-
pended), reported favorably the bill entitled, an Act to in-
corporate the Trustees of the Wesley Chapel Episcopal
Methodist Church at Reistertown, Baltimore county,

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

Mr. Hammond, from Select Committee on Hay Scales, (the
rules being considered as further suspended), made the fol-
lowing report: ,

To the Honorable,

The House of Delegates:

The Committee to whom was referred numerous petitions
of hay growers asking for more convenient facilities for
weighing the hay brought to the Baltimore market, beg
leave to report that they visited the western and northern
part of the city and examined the means and distances by
which the western scales are approached from the various
roads leading into that part of it, as well as the positions
which might be chosen for more convenient accommodations.
And they that find from the entrance of the Calverton,
Franklin and Frederick roads into the city the present hay
scales are located from 1 1/2 to two miles, over a very
crooked and for the most part unfrequented way, rendering
it difficult for a stranger to the suburbs of the town to find
his way to them.

From the Washington road they are at a much longer dis-
tance. No hay can be sold in Baltimore unless it has been
weighed at the State scales, and the traverse of a way so long
and unknown, to reach the scales, and the necessary return
to get the wagon weighed, and the return of the seller again
from remote points of the city, to be paid before he can leave
for his home, renders such long distances a serious matter to
the farmer, especially as there are no proper accommodations
in town for keeping loads of hay during the night. More
convenient scales to the Calverton, Franklin, Frederick and
Washington roads are deemed a sheer act of necessity to the
large and rapidly increasing hay-growing interest.

The Committee are of opinion, after consulting with the
present weighers of hay at the western scales, that if the
State shall receive for its share of the charges for weighing
one-fourth instead of one-third of the receipts from the scales
the present as well as the new scales can be supported and
the persons in charge be handsomely remunerated.