1868.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 863

So the motion to strike out the enacting clause did not
prevail.

The bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be
engrossed for a third reading.

Mr. Iglehart, Chairman of the Committee on Corporations,
submitted the following report:

REPORT.

To the Honorable, the Speaker and

Members of the House of Delegates:

The Committee on Corporations, to whom was referred the
bill entitled "An Act to increase the scholarships in the
Baltimore Female College, and to change the manner of
appointing the beneficiaries and trustees," beg leave to re-
port that, after an examination of the charter of the college,
they are persuaded that the provisions of the bill are wise
and salutary. The proposed mode of appointing the trus-
tees will be more convenient, and insure a better selection ;
while the power of nominating the beneficiaries, given to the
Commissioners of Schools, who are acquainted with the cir-
cumstances and mental capacity of the pupils under their
care, will secure the appointment, of young ladies worthy of
the advantages of the scholarships, and most likely to profit
by them. The practical effect of the proposed change is
shown by the late report of the County Superintendent of
Schools for Dorchester county, where the Orphans' Court
voluntarily gave the appointment to the School Commis-
sioners, and where, in consequence, there were many appli-
cants for the scholarship, though, under the former rule, the
.scholarship had not been filled for four years.

As provision was originally made for the education of one
pupil from each county and one from the city of Baltimore,
it is but fair to give, as the bill proposes, a scholarship to
Wicomico county, and to each of the new Senatorial Districts
of Baltimore city, and especially when it is considered that,
although Baltimore has contributed so largely to the
academic fund of the State since 1798, when academies
began to be established, she never received any academic or
collegiate appropriation until I860, when the Baltimore
Female College was endowed, and that of this endowment,
under existing laws, she enjoys the benefit of a single
scholarship only, of the value of $100 per annum.

As the College is rearing up a well-trained and competent
body of teachers for the State, and has already sent out
among our people as teachers sixty-two out of one hundred
and seventy-four graduates, we are induced to regard it as
an important educational agency, worthy of the State's fos-
tering care ; and believing that the bill, as originally re-