406 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 27,

inmates had all gone to bed, but the bright, happy laces,
cheerful, ringing laughter and merry voices that met them on
all sides, satisfied us that they were treated most kindly
and lovingly by those who have devoted themselves in the
spirit of self-sacrifice to their case. 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.

Your Committee also visited the "Maryland Industrial
School for Girls," situated at Illchester, in Baltimore county.

This is strictly a State institution and one well worthy o
its fostering care. The labors of this institution having 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 in imminent danger
of doing so. Penitent women can find a home at this place,
and also of the certainty of a secure maintainance by honora-
ble 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 examination and recitations of the pupils were creditable.
The location of this institution we think was wisely selected
with a view to health and privacy upon a bluff overlooking
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
future welfare should not be lost sight of by the State.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

T. STURGIS DAVIS,
Chairman on the part of the Senate.

O. H. P. CLARK,

Chairman on the part of the House.

The order of the day being

The Senate bill appropriating a sum of money to the
Washington Cemetery, in Washington county,

Was taken up, and read the third time and passed by yeas
and nays as follows: