790 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 16,

A bill entitled an Act directing the Comptroller of the
Treasury to cause to be paid to Brice Shipley a sum of money
erroneously paid into the Treasury by the said Brice Shipley.

Which was lead a first time.

Also, reported favorably, without amendments,

The Joint Resolutions directing the Comptroller to settle
and adjust the claims of the State against Wm. G. Burke,
late Sheriff of Harford county.

Mr. Colton, Chairman of the Committee on Claims, re-
ported favorably,

The Senate bill entitled an Act supplementary to an Act
entitled an Act to make certain improvements in the vicinity
of the State Live Stock Scales, passed at January session,
1864, chapter 23, and to an Act amendatory thereof, passed
1866, chapter 120, by appropriating a sum of money to ena-
ble the Commissioners therein named to dischage the liabili-
ties incurred thereunder, without amendments.

Mr. Blake, Chairman of the Joint Select Committee on
Public Buildings, submitted the following

REPORT:
To the, Honorable,

The General Assembly of Maryland.

GENTLEMEN :—The Joint Committee on Public Buildings
respectfully submit the following report to their respective
Houses: That we have carefully examined the accounts of
the various mechanics and others, who ask payment for work
which they have done, and for materials which they have
furnished for the Governor's Mansion and the improvement
and enclosure of the grounds surrounding the same, and
have arrived at the following conclusions:

We are fully satisfied, after a careful and thorough exami-
nation of the accounts submitted to us, and the vouchers by
which they are sustained, and after a thorough and careful
examination of the work which has been done, that the bills
are correct in every particular, the prices charged are just
and reasonable, and that the work, to use the language of the
Building Committee, "has been well and faithfully done."
We are also fully satisfied that there was no contract made
by the Building Committee with any one for the erection of
the Governor's Mansion for a specified sum.

In justice to the Building Committee, (as also to Gov.
Swann, Chairman of the Committee till January 1869,) it is
proper to state that they believed, in the beginning, the cost
of the work would not exceed the amount appropriated by