572 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 16,

the skilled labors of its graduates, the primary and high
schools have been brought to their present state of advance-
ment, and from these two sources our colleges are chiefly
filled, most of our enterprising business men are drawn, and
many of our best professional men emanate. It stands,
therefore, as the heart of the system, midway between the
extremities—the primary rudiments and the highest colle-
giate culture, connecting the two and imparting life and
vigor to both. Any deficiency, therefore, in this school is
injuriously felt throughout the whole.

This important institution has no permanent building that
it can call its own; this deficiency is very marked, and would
seem to imply a want of the full appreciation of its useful-
ness. To remedy this deficiency, the attention of the Legis-
ture and the liberality of the State are earnestly invoked.

J. H. BLANDFORD,

President.

RICHARD B. B. CHEW,
GEORGE P. TIFFANY,

Commissioners.,

M. J. STONE,

Examiner.

Which was read and referred to the Committee on Education.
On motion by Mr. Brattan. it was

Ordered, That the Hon. Andrew Jackson Crawford, of
Wicomico county, is absent from his scat on account of sever e
sickness in his family.

On motion by Mr. Stevens,

Leave was granted to the Committee on Finance to introduce
a bill entitled an Act to appropriate a sum of money to defray
the expense of painting the portraits of Governors Thomas
Stone, and William Paca, and Thomas Johnson, of Mary-
land, to be placed in Independence Hall, at Philadelphia..

Also,

Leave to the Committee on Judicial Proceedings to intro-
duce a bill entitled an Act to add an additional section to
Article LXVII. of the Code of Public General Laws, title
"Notaries Public."

Also,

Leave to the Committee on Corporations to introduce a
bill entitled an Act to amend Article XXVI. of the Code of
Public General Laws entitled "Corporations," by adding