710 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 11,

to make suitable provision for the speedy erection of such a
building.

They represent to your Committee, that the present build-
ings could be used for work shops, in which the mutes might
be taught the various trades, and thus be made self-support-
ing after they leave the Institution. They would thus be-
come a support to the State, instead of a burden, and in
many instances might be a blessing to an aged father or
mother, relieving them, by their industry, from the pangs of
poverty.

Your Committee take great pleasure in saying, that they
fully agree with the Board of Visitors in their opinions and
representations of the piesent buildings. They are, in our
judgment, wholly inadequate and unfit for the purposes of
an institution of this character, and we therefore earnestly
commend to your favorable consideration, the propriety of
making suitable and liberal provision for the erection of such
a building as shall be needed to place the Institution in a
position becoming the honor of the. State, and as shall best
promote the great labor of benevolence and love upon which
the State has entered, and to which the hearts of the people
so earnestly respond.

In order to secure the erection of such suitable building,
as well as to spare the State from present heavy taxation,
the Board of Visitors propose that the State shall issue its
bonds, redeemable in fifteen years from date, for the sum of
two hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be
necessary, for erecting and furnishing the same. A tax of
one-half of one per cent., it is estimated, would be sufficient
to create a sinking fund that would liquidate the bonds at
maturity.

These bonds, it is confidently believed, could all be sold in
Frederick county at par.

To this proposition, your Committee give their full and
cordial approbation.

This charitable undertaking so commends itself to all hu-
mane men, and is now so enshrined in the hearts of the peo-
ple of the State, that your Committee do not deem it necessary
to suggest even one of the many cogent reasons for the im-
mediate adoption of the measure.

In the generous breast of every member of this General
Assembly, we do not doubt this institution in all its neces-
sary demands, will meet with a hearty and cordial ap-
proval .

In conclusion, your Committee cannot refrain from giving
the following beautiful and suggestive lines of the Deaf Mute
in order that he may himself be heard speaking from his lone-
ness and isolation, to his more blessed and happy fellow men :