1878.] OF THE SENATE. 561

Mr. Miller, from the Committee on Federal Relations,

submitted the following Resolution:

Senate Joint Resolution in relation to Samuel Chase Bar-
ney, Ex-Lieutenant of the United States Navy:

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
our Senators and Representatives in the Congress of the
United States be, and they hereby are requested to use their
influence to procure the restoration of Samuel Chase Barney,
Ex-Lieutenant of the United States Navy, to the retired list
of said navy.

Which was read the first time.

Mr. Bannon, from the Joint Committee on Public Buildings,

submitted the following

REPORT.
To the Honorable,

The Senate and House of Delegates:

The Standing Committee on Public Buildings of the Hon-
orable, the House of Delegates and the Senate, respectfully
report, that acting as a Joint Committee of your Honorable
Bodies, they have carefully performed their duties, and as a
result of their labor, submit to the Honorable, the Senate
and House of Delegates, this, their report:

First.—Your Committee visited the House of Refuge, sit-
uated near the limits of the City of Baltimore, and found no
person present who could give the information wanted, the
managers having some time ago dispensed with their former
superintendent, the superintendent pro tem. was not present,
your Committee proceeded to carefully inspect the buildings
and grounds, and found the buildings in very indifferent re-

pair, and not suited for the purposes of a Juvenile Reforma-
tory.

The walls of the cells were cold, clammy and damp.
The heating apparatus being totally inadequate to heat
the building with any degree of comfort; the build-

ing was erected over twenty-seven years ago, when heat-

ing and ventilation was not so thoroughly understood as now.
The institution is supported by the City of Baltimore and the
State,—the former giving twenty thousand dollars per an-
num for the support of two hundred boys ; the latter giving
fifteen thousand dollars per annum without regard to the
number of boys there was in the institution When your
Committee visited it two years ago there were two hundred
and fifty-six boys. There are now two hundred and thirty-

three boys,—thirty-three chargeable to the State and two
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