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ble age, they are either indentured to the Manual Labor
School or are placed in good homes procured for them in our
own or neighboring States. The Committee visited the In-
stitution after its little inmates had all gone to bed, but the
bright, happy faces, cheerful, ringing laughter and merry
voices that met them on all sides, satisfied us that they were
bred most kindly and lovingly by those who have devoted
themselves in the spirit of self-sacrifice in their cause. The
Institution specially deserves recognition for its efforts to
train up the infant in such ways that may make a virtuous
boyhood and girlhood develop into the healthiest form of
manhood and womanhood.

Some of your Committee also visited the Maryland Indus-
trial School for Girls at Illchester, in Baltimore county.
This is strictly a State Institution, and one well worthy of
its fostering care. The labors of this Institution have been
directed towards rescuing from lives of sin and shame young
girls who have recently gone astray from virtue, or those
who, from circumstances of exposure, are iu imminent dan-
ger of doing so.

Penitent women can find a home at this place, and also the
certainty of secure maintenance by honorable industry.

The system of control enforced at this place is founded in
the law of kindness, and while the softening influence of vir-
tuous example is not altogether lost upon the hearts of the
inmates, their minds and hands are taught habits of atten-
tion and industrious occupation.

The inmates are taught household duties and other female
accomplishments. The course of studies in the School is the
same as pursued at the Public Schools of the State, and the
examinations and recitations of the pupils were creditable.

The location of this Institution, we think, was wisely se-
lected, with a view to health and privacy, upon a bluff over-
looking the Patapsco, and a large scope of the surrounding
country.

The Institution has done much good under the efficient
management of its present officers and directors, and its fu-
ture welfare should not be lost sight of by the State.

T. STURGIS DAVIS,
LEWIS H. STEINER,

Senate Committee.

JOHN MERRYMAN,
O. H. P. CLARK,
HENRY E. LOANE,

Committee of House of Delegates.
Which was read.