772 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 13,

struction for Colored Children, in Prince George's county,
beg leave to report, that they have executed the trust com-
mitted to them, and respectfully submit herewith the result

of their investigations.

Your Committee, together with President Cox and several
other members of the Board of Managers, were received at
Tallot's Station, on the Baltimore and Potomac Rail Road,
by the Superintendent, General Horn, and readily conveyed
to the Institution, distant about three-quarters of a mile.

We were first directed through a family building, and

carefully examined its several apartments, consisting of offi-
cers' rooms, a large school-room, two dormitories, a play-
room, store-room, clothes-room, and four rooms for solitary
confinement. Desks, bedding, school apparatus and other
furniture were being placed in this building, preparatory to
its immediate occupancy, and your Committee are pleased to

say, that the several apartments seemed admirably adapted
to their purposes, were well ventilated, and possessed of all
necessary appliances for convenience and comfort.

This building, as also the furniture and appurtenances, are
plain and substantial, with no unnecessary or lavish expen-
diture apparent, and altogether looking to the great deside-
rata of health, comfort, discipline, and all needful sanitary,
corrective and reformatory appliances.

Your Committee would here represent that this is the only
family building erected or contracted for, that is constructed
for the accommodation of fifty boys, and that already the
number resident at the Institution is greatly larger than can
be cared for, disciplined and improved according to the well-
matured and very feasible plans of the worthy Superintendent
and officers in charge. And that it is thus manifest to your
Committee that another family building is now pressingly
needed, and that from the rapid increase of the inmates
since the first member was admitted, now less than a year
ago, that other similar buildings will be required in the very
near future.

Your Committee also, as full as their limited time would
admit, examined the main or central building. In this are
the general dining-room, kitchen, store-rooms, laundry, dry-
ing-room ind bakery, Superintendent's residence, office, re-

ception-room, serving and officers' room and chapel. The
several apartments of this building inspected by us were found
scrupulously neat and cleanly, and eminently adapted to their
several designated purposes. The kitchen, with its culinary
apparatus and general dining-room, situated in the central
building, are especially worthy of note as admirably arranged
and sufficiently commodious to meet all probable require-