1867.] OF THE SENATE. 585

Endorsed "passed by yeas and nays."

A bill entitled, an Act to incorporate the town of Poolsville
in Montgomery county;

Endorsed "passed by yeas and nays."

A bill entitled, an Act to repeal section 4, of chapter 3, of
the Act of 1865, chapter 160, entitled, School House Sites,
and section 1, chapter 1, entitled, sources of income of the
Act of 1865, chapter 160, entitled, ah Act to add a new Arti-
cle to the Code of Public General Laws, to be entitled, Pub-
lic Instruction, providing a uniform' system of Free Public
Schools for the State of Maryland, and to repeal all existing
laws inconsistent therewith, and to re-enact the same with
amendments;

Endorsed "passed by yeas and nays."

Mr. Mules from the Committee on Corporations} reported
a bill entitled, an Act to amend an Act incorporating the
Washington University of Baltimore, and to establish a Hos-
pital, to be styled the Maryland Free Hospital, in said city;

Which was read the first time.

Mr. Henkle from the Select Committee, submitted the fol-
owing report, accompanied by a bill :

The special committee to which was referred the leave to
bring in a bill to authorize the sale of the present tobacco
warehouses and lots in the city of Baltimore and the purchase
of other lots and the erection of new tobacco warehouses on
deep water, have had the subject under consideration, and
now report a bill to effect this object, which they recommend
to the favorable consideration of the Senate.

Your committee at this late period of the session, will con-
tent themselves with the mere suggestion of a few of the rea-
sons which have induced them to report and recommend the
passage of this bill.

The magnitude of the interests involved will scarcely be
appreciated hy those Senators who do not represent constitu-
encies engaged in the cultivation of tobacco.

Tour committee find that in 1858, the number of hogs-
heads inspected was 70,669, and the number exported was
66,534. In 1859, the number imported was 62,801, and the
number exported was 55,974; and that in 1860, the number
inspected was 92,838, and the number exported was 68,338
hogsheads. Your committee would estimate the value of this
immense product, at from six to eight millions of dollars, an
amount they submit of sufficient magnitude to elicit the at-
tention of the Senate, and to obtain from Senators prompt
attention to any measure calculated to promote so vast an in-

Under the laws of the State regulating the inspection and
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