308 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 19,

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 presence 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
bonds and certificates in Sinking Funds and Free
School Fund.

The committee examined and counted and found in
the possession of the Treasurer all the stocks and
bonds enumerated in said Table F, except as herein-
after enumerated, and all of said bonds and stocks
were properly cancelled, except the bonds and certifi-
cates not of the State debt, none of which were can-
celled or stamped as required by law.

None of the Treasury Relief Loan Bonds named in
said Table F were found, but a certificate was pre-
sented to the committee, signed by Thomas G. Hayes,
of the Senate, J. G. Berret and Philip D. Laird, of
the House of Delegates, a committee appointed by the
General Assembly, which stated that they had on the
29th day of January, 1892, in compliance with the
terms of a Joint Resolution of the General Assembly,
destroyed $500, 000. 00 of said bonds, with coupons at-
tached thereto, due July 1st, 1892, and thereafter.

The item of bonds under column of Exchange
Loan of 1889, Table F, of Comptroller's Report,
amounting to $1, 242, 300. 00 were not found in Sinking