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repair and well managed, and we recommend the appropri-
ation asked.

Your Committee next visited the school for the blind, on
Boundary Avenue, near Charles street, and found all its ap-
pointments in the very best condition, the grounds and build-
ing well and neatly kept. There were on the day of our
visit forty-nine pupils in the institution, ten of whom were
from the District of Columbia, and paid for by those sending
them. The remaining thirty-nine pupils are a charge on the
State, which pays for each of them at the rate of three hun-
dred dollars per annum.

Your Committee next visited the Colored School for the
Deaf, Dumb and Blind, on Broadway near Bank street, and
found thirty-two inmates. For these the State makes an ap-
propriation of eight thousand five hundred dollars annually.
This building is situated in a very thickly settled part of the
city, and some of its neighbors complain that its location
there has greatly depreciated their property, and otherwise
inconvenienced them.

Your Committee believe these complaints to be well found-
ed, as Dr. Erich, one of the officers of the institution, in-
formed your Committee, that his own property has deprecia-
ted in value over two thousand dollars. The Board of Direc-
tors express their willingness to move, but are unable, unless
the Legislature shall furnish the means. Your Committee
therefore recommend an appropriation of such a sum, which
together with the sale of the present buildings will enable
the trustees of the institution to move to some retired loca-
tion in the country, where it can be managed with more
economy, and the inmates have more freedom, without ex-
citing adverse criticism of their near neighbors. And your
Committee believe the management of the institution is as
good as of any institution in the State under the circum-
stances.

Your Committee next visited the House of Reformation and
instruction for colored children, situated at Cheltingham, in
Prince George's County. This is an institution similar in
kind to the House of Refuge and St. Mary's Industrial School,
where juvenile colored delinquents are committed from all
parts of the State, by the Courts and Justices of the Peace.
It is a thrifty, well-managed institution, and increasing in
numbers very fast.

Your Committee recommend the usual annual appropria-
tion of ten thousand dollars.

Year Committee next visited the Maryland Agricultural
College, and found on the day of our visit fifty-five students