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1892.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 381
REPORT:
To the Honorable
the General Assembly of Maryland :
The Finance Committee of the Senate and the Ways
and Means Committee of the House of Delegates
would respectfully report that in compliance with
the terms of section 23, of Article 95, of the Code of
Public General Laws, as amended by the Act of 1890,
chapter 571, which provides, ''And the Committee on
Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways
and Means of the House of Delegates shall jointly,
during each session of the Legislature and within the
first month of such session, examine and count all
such bonds and certificates of stock so purchased or
obtained up to the close of the fiscal year next pre-
ceding such session and canceled or stamped, pur-
chased for the Sinking Fund, as required by the pro-
visions of this Act, and shall burn all such bonds and
certificates of stock as belong to the overdue debt of
the State, and shall examine carefully all bonds or
certificates of stock maturing at some future day, for
the purpose of ascertaining that the same have been
endorsed or marked, cancelled or stamped purchased
for the Sinking Fund, as required by section 26
of this Article, and that the accruing coupons
and interest thereon have been collected and
credited to said Sinking Fund, and shall make
a joint report of their proceedings therein to both
Houses of the Legislature, within two weeks after they
shall have finished their said duties as prescribed by
this section," did, acting jointly, at 10 o'clock, A. M.,
on the 6th of February, 1892, in the building of the
Safe Deposit Company at Baltimore city, in the pres-
ence of the Treasurer and Comptroller of the Treasury,
said date being within the first month of the session
of the General Assembly, commence the performance
of their duties set out in said section.
The committee took as their guide in this examina-
tion, the stocks and bonds, as enumerated in Table F,
page 16, of Comptroller's Report, for fiscal year end-
ing September 30th, 1891, which purports to give all
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