imprisonment in idleness, and contact with older peisoner
hardens them in guilt and gives, new lessons in the school of
crime. Besides these, there are also many other cases which
do not fall under our cognizance from the unwillingness of
parties to prosecute.

We respectfully' represent that justice to the negro, and
economy to the tax-payers alike demand that provision simi-
lar to that which now exists with such marked benefit for the
white should also be extended to the black race."

Also, to the following extract from the Report of the Grand
Jury for May term, 1866:

" We suggest to the Court that humanity and justice also
demand that a more suitable place of confinement than the
jail should be provided for the many negro children of both
sexes, who are committed mostly for trivial offences."

We would therefore most earnestly urge upon your Honor-
able Body the passage of a law.authorizing the incorporation
of an institution for the purposes designated, and as in duty
bound we will ever pray,
W. H. Perkins, Jno. J. Ford,
Jas, J. Waters, . Edmund Bull,
Wm. H. Bayzand, Ernest W. Briding,
F. Raine, Geo. P. Thomas,
John B. Seidenstriker, John G. Hedinge,
L. Jarrett, Edward Carroll,
Joshua Lynch, W. H. Peane,
Jason Rogers, Joseph Holt,
Geo. H. Dutton, E. Hanzsche,
Thomas H. Spencer, Wm. Addison,
Thomas E. Dell, W. W. McClellan,
James Fuller,

Since I have occupied the position of Sheriff of Baltimore
city, I have been forcibly impressed with the great need for
a refuge for colored minors who are constantly arrested for
petty criminal offences, and unhesitatingly endorse the an-
nexed memorial.

W. THOMPSON,

Sheriff Balto. City.