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elusion that an expenditure of about ten thousand dollars
upon the present buildings, will put them in a fit condition
to receive and accommodate all the deaf mutes who are now
"beneficiaries of this State.

The citizens of Frederick are anxious that such an institu-
tion should be placed in their midst, and your Committee
would say that they know of no place so well adapted for an
institution of this kind as the place mentioned. Frederick
city is proverbial for its beauty and for its health/fulness, and
if an institution for the care and education of the deaf and
dumb mutes of Maryland is to be established, it is our opinion
that that city should by all means be selected.

Should the General Assembly of Maryland decide to estab-
lish the institution, we would recommend the passage of the
bill reported to this House from the Committee on Ways and
Means, with the following amendments, to wit: Strike out
all of the preamble after the word, "charter," in the 15th
line; strike out sections 16 and 17, and in section 1st, of
chapter 247, passed at January session, 1867, which is the
original Act, strike out the names of Thomas Sims and
Grafton Dnval, and insert the names of George E. Dennis
and Francis S. Jones. All of the foregoing we respectfully
submit.

B. F. GUY,
JAMES PENTLAND,
JAMES TOUCHSTONE,
E. ALBAUGH,
JOHN C. HORSEY.
Which was read.

Also, reported favorably

The bill entitled an Act to amend and add additional sec-
tions to the Act passed at the January session, 1867, of the
General Assembly of Maryland, entitled an Act to establish
and incorporate an Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb of the
State of Maryland, to follow section 15, with proposed
amendments,

Said bill being upon a second reading.
Amendments proposed :

Strike out all of the preamble after the word "charter,"
in the 15th line.

Strike out sections 16 and 17.

Section 1, chapter 247, passed at January session, 1867,
which is the original Act, strike out the names of Thomas
Sims and Grafton Duval, and insert the names of George R.
Dennis and Francis S. Jones.