708 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 11,

REPORT.
To the Honorable,

The Speaker and Members of the General Assembly:

The undersigned, the Committee on the part of the Senate
and House of Delegates, to whom was referred the subject of
the State Deaf and Dumb Asylum, respectfully beg leave to
submit the following report:

Your Committee left Baltimore city on Friday morning,
the 4th inst., for the purpose of visiting the State institution
located at Frederick city, and to examine into its condition.
They were generously provided with a special car by the Bal-
timore and Ohio Railroad Company, with every arrangement
that could contribute to their comfort, and your Committee
desire to take this opportunity to return their thanks to that
Company for the elegant provision thus made for their accom-
modation.

On arriving at Frederick your Committee were met by the
Principal of the institution, and a member of the Board of
Visitors, and were most agreeably and hospitably entertained
during their brief sojourn in Frederick city.

On reaching the institution, they were conducted through
the different class-rooms, and were touched with the deepest
sympathy for those unfortunate Mutes, by the brief exhibi-
tions given of their proficiency in the different branches of
study into which they were classified. Pupils that had not
been in the institution more than six months, had acquired
already a knowledge of the sign language—could read and
write well, and had made considerable progress in history,
geography, and in general information, thus giving testi-
mony to the unremitting care and devotion to duty, of the
Principal and Teachers of the institution.

The location of this institution, destined as we believe it is,
to become at no distant day the honor and pride of the State,
is all that could be desired by the warmest friend of this great
charity. Frederick is a neat and beautiful inland city of about
twelve thousand inhabitants, accessible by railroad from all
parts of the State, situated in a most fertile and healthy sec-
tion of country, supplied with pure water from the adjacent
mountain side, and with markets abundantly supplied with
cheap provision of every kind. The people generous, hospit-
able and intelligent, feel a deep interest in the success of this
institution, planted by the State in their midst, and no effort,
we believe, will be spared on their part to make it all that
could be desired and intended by the State in founding it.

The buildings now occupied are situated on an elevated lot
of ground, ten acres, adjoining the city. It has a command-
ing view of the adjacent country for many miles in all direc-