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Mr. Earle, from the Committee on Finance, to which had
been re-committed

The Senate bill entitled "An Act for the support and treat-
ment of indigent patients in the Baltimore Eye and Ear In-
stitute of Baltimore city, and the Maryland Eye and Ear In-
stitute,"

Reported the said bill with the following amendments :

AMENDMENTS PROPOSED.

Amend section 1, line 5—Strike out the word "same," and
insert the word "further."

Section 1, line 21—Amend by adding after the word "In-
stitutions," the following. "And that they have each trans-
mitted to the Boards of County Commissioners of the different
counties, and the Board of City Commissioners of the city of
Baltimore, circulars setting forth the arrangements they have
made to meet the provisions of this law, and inviting these
Boards to send forward the blind and deaf of their counties,
and the city of Baltimore to receive the advantage of board,
care and surgical treatment provided for them."

Which were adopted.

Said bill as amended was read the second time and ordered
to be engrossed for a third reading.

Mr. Walsh, from the Joint Committee appointed to visit
the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Frederick, submitted the fol-
lowing

REPORT.

The Joint Committee appointed by the Senate and House
of Delegates, to visit and inspect the Institution for the Deaf
and Dumb, located at Frederick, Maryland, beg leave to
report as follows:

That they visited said Institution on the sixth instant, and
were afforded abundant opportunities of witnessing its opera-
tions under the guidance of the President and members of the
Board of Visitors., and Professor Charles Ely, the Principal.

The pupils, eighty-eight in number, gave evidence in all
the class-rooms of the great care that had been taken in their
instruction, by the intelligent, pains-taking members of the
Faculty of the Institution.

Their progress in knowledge was shown by the means of
written exercises on the blackboard, and by the facility with
which they interpreted into sign language themes given them
by their teachers, and the Committee. Quite a number have