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cial assistance against the State of Maryland than any
other college of this State, for we are aware that it
was considered both by the college authorities and
the Legislature of that day, that the grant of $12,000
per annum made by the Act of 1866, chapter 101, was
nothing more or less than the grant of six per cent,
(the legal rate of interest), on §200,000, the estimated
equitable claim of the college upon the State for un-
paid arrearages, and it was then the belief of all par-
ties concerned that the grant would be renewed from
time to so long as the college continued faithfully to
carry out the objects of its incorporation.

The institution is non-sectarian, and has been form-
ally acknowledged as a ward of the State, by the reso-
lution of 1832, which provides that the Governor,
President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of
Delegates and the Judges of the Court of Appeals
should be ex-officio members of the Board of Visitors
and Governors.

We are very respectfully yours,
L. H. GADD,
Jos. S. WILSON,

Committee on the part of the Senate.
J. CHAS. LINTHICUM,
W. LEE CAREY.

HOUSE OE DELEGATES, March 17, 1904.

The following Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland, originating in the House of Delegates, were
presented to the Governor this day for his approval.

Chapter 113. "An Act to amend the Charter of the
Eureka Mutual Aid Society of Baltimore city, a cor-
poration incorporated under the general laws of this
State, and the charter of which was amended by the
Act of the General Assembly at the session of 1900,
chapter 515, by changing the corporate name of said
incorporation to 'The Eureka Life Insurance Com-
pany, of Baltimore city.' "

Chapter 114. "An Act to repeal section 30 of the
Article 27 of the Code of Public General Laws of Mary-