664 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 19,

there, who were put through the various operations of farm
work in our presence, they were then turned into military,
and your Committee reviewed and was pleased with the pro-
ficiency in drill of the young farmers The Professors appear
to Work with zeal in their respective chairs, in fact we were
pleased with all we saw and heard.

Your Committee finally and lastly visited the House of
Correction, near Jessup's Cut. It is a fine building, well put
up and admirably suited for the purposes it is intended tor.
The water, gas, heating and shops are yet needed to make
the building ready for the reception of inmates. We recom-
mend an appropriation for the purpose of supplying the ne-
cessary improvement, to make the house inhabitable, and
herewith report a bill for that purpose.

Your Committee visited the Maryland Hospital, at Spring
Grove, situated near Catonsville, in Baltimore County, seven
miles from Baltimore, and found it located on a tract of land
containing one hundred and thirty-seven (137) acres, com-
manding a fine view of Baltimore City, the bay and sur-
rounding country for many miles. The improvements con-
sist of a large hospital, built of granite, in a very substantial
manner, with gas-house, hot-house, gardener's dwell-
ing, stabling, &c., and found the hospital capable of
comfortably affording accommodation for three hundred and
twenty-five patients. There were, however, on the day of
our visit, January the 21st, 1878, only two hundred and
eighty-eight insane in the institution, fifty of whom paid for
their own maintenance, and were no tax on the hospital; the
remaining two hundred and thirty-eight were sent to the hos-
pital by order of the Circuit Courts for the various counties
and the City of Baltimore, and the sum of one hundred and
fifty dollars per annum levied by the County Commissioners,
or the City Council, for each of these insane paupers, and
paid over by the different counties and City of Baltimore to
the President and Visitors of the Maryland Hospital, some-
times in advance, and neatly all in the year, for which it is
levied, so that the institution was in receipt of maintenance
for two hundred and thirty-eight paupers the sum of thirty-
five thousand seven hundred dollars, and for fifty patients
twelve thousand five hundred dollars, the whole cost for
maintaining the institution for last year being sixty-five
thousand four hundred and sixty-four dollars, or two hun-
dred and forty-five dollars per capita. This sum is too large.
But your Committee believe that a greater saving of the ex-
penses can. be effected; it is only necessary to know the
amount of insane to know what they should cost. The last
report of the Superintendent of the Insane Asylum at Ward's