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"Crimes and Punishments," sub-title "Embezzlements," to
provide for the punishment of embezzlement.

Which unfavorable report was adopted.

Also, unfavorably,

House bill entitled an Act to amend Section 54, of Article
3, of the Constitution of the btate of Maryland.

Which unfavorable report was adopted.

Also, unfavorably,

House bill entitled an Act to repeal Section 16, of Article
38, of the Code of Public General Laws, so far as it applies
to the pay of the Criers of the Circuit Courts of the several,
counties, and to enact the following in lieu thereof.

Which unfavorable report was adopted.

Mr. Hill, from the Committee on Agriculture, submitted
the following report:

REPORT.

To the Senate:

The Committee on Agriculture most respectfully beg leave
to submit the following report, in relation to the Maryland
Agricultural College:

Under instructions of the Senate, your Committee visited
the Maryland Agricultural College, and made the inspection
they were directed to make, of every department of the col-
lege, to which they were cordially invited, and assisted by
the President of the Faculty.

Your Committee were impressed with the good order and
discipline of the college, with all the evidences of good ad-
ministration in the recitation rooms, mess-hall, kitchen and
bakery, and dormitory.

The curriculum, or course of studies, seems well adjusted
to the purpose and proper plan of an institution for education
in agriculture, and the mechanic arts, and liberal studies.—
Two and a-half hours daily are given to the Agricultural
Department. In the grade and value of the studies kindred
to it, and the time devoted to them, agriculture ranks by the
rule of the college as seven to three of any other depart-
ment.

The collegiate plan and course of instruction is by the
academic method of text book, lecture, study, recitation, and
the laboratory for the chemical analysis of soils, manures and
plants. But the school of practice on the farm and in the