to the vast Hall, where lay in solemn state the remains of our
honored friend.

The Hall was draped with all the care and propriety that
the most respectful sympathy could suggest, and its mourn-
ing decorations were such as would do honor to the most re-
fined taste. Daylight being entirely excluded, the illumina-
tion proceeded from jets of gas artistically arranged, to re-
present the rays of the sun, in the midst of which appeared
the monogram of the deceased, and on either side were em-
blazoned in silver the arms of England and America, while
around the Hall, in living colors, were mottoes to illustrate
the many virtues which he possessed.

After solemn music for the dead, impressive prayers were
pronounced by the Bishop of the State, when the funeral pro-
cession took up their march for the train which was to con-
vey them to the place of his birth.

Your Committee were duly provided with accommodations
upon the funeral train, and on arriving at the town of Pea-
body, the remains were transferred to the Institute which his
bounty had created, there to lie in state until the day of
their final interment.

In thus attending the obsequies which took place from the
City of Portland, and in view of the national character of
those proceedings, your Committee, upon consultation, de-
termined that the object of their appointment had been ac-
complished, and they now return to their duties deeply im-
pressed with the universal appreciation which they have wit-
nessed of the virtues of the deceased, and assured that the
sentiment of the State will approve of the action of the Gene-
ral Assembly in honor of this great occasion.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
JOHN LEE CARROLL,
GEO. W. WILSON,
E. G. KILBOURN,
O. HAMMOND.

Which was read and adopted.
By unanimous consent,

Mr. Clarke presented the following petition of Judges
Grayson, Yellott and Bateman, praying the passage of a law
relating to the records of Baltimore county.

To the Honorable,
the General Assembly of Maryland:

The undersigned, Judges of the Third Judicial District of
Maryland, beg leave to call your attention to the condition
of a portion of the records of the Clerk's office of the Circuit
Court for Baltimore county.
An investigation of the records of that office made by us in