658 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 1,

Congress to Maryland as compensation for losses sustained by
the war, be set apart as a fund to be used in the support of
the widows of loyal Union soldiers who fell in the late terri-
ble struggle, and in the maintenanca and education of their
children. And be it further

Resolved, That the General Assembly ought to provide by
law for taking and perpetuating the evidence of the amount
and value of all private property taken and destroyed by the
rebel army during its several invasions of the State, hoping
that at some future time Congress may see fit to compensate
the loyal people of the State for the loss of all property taken
and destroyed by the armed enemies of the United States
Government.

UPTON BUHRMAN.

Which was read.

Mr. Steiner moved that five hundred copies be ordered
to be printed.

The report was then referred to the Committee on Printing.
On motion of Mr. Bixler,

The rules being suspended,

The House took up for consideration the resolutions direct-
ing the Comptroller to pay Trustees of Agricultural College
remaining instalments for purchasing an interest in said
college.

Said resolutions being upon a second reading,

Mr. Appleman submitted the following substitute :

Whereas, The State Agricultural College, situated in
Prince George's county, was constructed and is sustained at
vast expense of the State;

And whereas, The General Assembly, at its session of
1865, directed the land scrip donated by the General Govern-
ment to the State of Maryland, to be applied solely for the
benefit of said college, thus making it a Federal as well as
State institution;

And whereas; The trustees of said college have recently ap-
pointed to the presidency and chief professorship a notorious
rebel and traitor, a certain General Custis Lee, late of the
rebel army, the influence of whose public character, as well
as his professional labors, would have had a dangerous ten-
dency to corrupt the minds of pupils with treason and dis-
loyalty to the Government; therefore,

1st. Resolved, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the State Agricultural College would be an unsafe place for
the education of our young men, and wholly unworthy of
either State or Federal patronage, with a man of that cast at
its head.