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Iglehart,	Albaugh,	Conway ,
Deale,	Dutrow,	Syester,
Bond, of Calvert.	Wenner,	Rohrer,
Mitchell.	Bowlus,	Seibert,
Chapman,	Byers,	Offutt,
Sliuglnff,	Nelson,	Conley,
Poteet,	Vandiver,	McCulloh,
Holmes,	Brown,	Kean,
Biddison,	Hubbard,	Trimble,
Lowe,	Wentz,	Davis, of Curroll,
Horsey,	Blake,	Jordan,
Stewart, of Dor.,	Latrobe,	Worthington,
Davis, of Cecil,	Smith, of B. city,	Harden,
Touchstone.	Bond, of B. city,	Fooks— 55.
	NEGATIVE — None.

Said bill was then sent to the Senate.

Mr. Smith of Baltimore city, (the rules being suspended,)
submitted the following order :

Ordered, That two thousand copies of the report of the
State Immigrant Agent of Maryland be distributed among
the members of this House.

Which was adopted.

Mr. Mai'kland, Chairman of the Joint Committee on Pub-
lic Buildings (the rules being suspended,) submitted the fol-
lowing

REPORT:

To the Honorable,

The General Assembly of Maryland.

The Committees on Public Buildings of the Senate and
House of Delegates, to whom was referred for concurrent ac-
tion, that portion of the Governor's Message, in regard to an
Executive Mansion, have in the discharge of that part of their
duties relative to the selection of a suitable location, examined
.several sites which were offered for their inspection, and have
unanimously determined upon the lots offered by Mrs. Matilda
E. Green, Geo. E. Franklin and James W. Alien, Esquires,
forming in the aggregate an entire block, surrounded on
every side by streets, as being in every respect the most de-
sirable for the purposes intended, for the following reasons :

Contiguity to the State House, convenient both to the Gov-
ernor and the people; will protect the State House in a great
degree from being in the future marred by improvements of
a character not in harmony with it, will extend the area of
the grounds now belonging to the State, and which when
properly laid out and planted, will form a spot that every
Marylander can look upon with pride and satisfaction. Its