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ing, when loaded, the largest vessels engaged in this trade;
and as the bill also provides for railways from the wharf
where the tobacco is to be delivered to the warehouse where
it is te be inspected, and also for the means of carrying the
article where it is to be shipped from the warehouses by rail-
ways directly to the vessel which is being loaded.

Your committee are also advised that great loss is incurred
by the exposure of the tobacco on the wharves now used, be-
fore it is taken to the warehouses, estimated by some of the
most intelligent planters and by the captains of boats en-
gaged in this trade, at from fifty to one hundred thousand
dollars annually. This loss would be entirely obviated by
the bill submitted for your passage.

Again, your committee are advised that a great saving
would flow from the increased rapidity with which this staple
by the proposed improvement could be placed in the vessel
for exportation. After the proposed improvements shall have
have been effected, a vessel could be loaded in one-third of the
time now required, and this immense saving would go to the
planter, as it is certain that the shipper now estimates in
making his purchase all those costs, &c.

It is a law of trade that the largest market is always the
best one for the seller, and by the proposed improvements,
large quantities of tobacco, which now seek other markets,
would be brought to Baltimore for sale and shipment.

Let Senators contemplate for a moment the course of this
trade now being brought to Baltimore from other States. To-
bacco is now brought to some extent from middle Pennsylva-
nia, from Kentucky and Ohio by the Northern Central Road
to Baltimore, which is then carried in drays from the depot of
that company to the present warehouses, at a very large cost.
After this proposed improvement is made, all the tobacco
from those States will be taken by rail to the new warehouses
without additional cost, &c., and when sold for shipment,
will be placed in the vessel without charge. This great sav-
ing, your committee are advised, will greatly increase the
quantity sent to Baltimore, and will tend to build up the
commercial emporium of your State.

One of the provisions of this bill will commend itself to
your favor. It is the provision for the tri-weekly Sale, by
auction; of all such tobacco as the owner, or his agent, may
desire to offer for sale in this way, thus inaugurating a system
which has commended itself so favorably at Louisville and
elsewhere.

Your Committee are not advised that any portion of the
citizens of this State will oppose this measure except the
Agents of the Planters, and your Committee are confident
that this opposition on their part is based upon the errone-