1878.] OF THE SENATE. 565

Island, New York, shows that it cost for each insane male
for, 1876 twenty-nine cents per day, or $105.85 per annum,
and for each female lunatic on Blackwell's Island twenty-one
cents per day, or $77.00 per annum ; while during the year
with the same market prices, the insane in the Maryland
Hospital, male and female, cost $215.00 per annum to sup-
port them , in fact, the monthly pay roll for salary and
wages to guards, keepers and nurses for thirteen hundred
patients on Blackwell's Island, was only $1500, and it cost
at Maryland Hospital to perform the same service for two
hundred and eighty-eight patients $1600 per month. It will
be seen that a great deal has been accomplished in the last
two years, but much remains still to be done to put this in-
stitution on a proper footing of economy. We recommend
that the usual appropriation of $15,000 be made, but noth-
ing for improvements, as we believe none are needed at pres-
ent. All of which is respectfully submitted by

M. BANNON,
HERMAN STUMP, JR.,
JOHN H. COOPER,
WILLIAM M. KNIGHT,
ISAAC H. HOUSTON,
SAMUEL G. ACTON,
HENRY SANDER.

I concur in above Report, except as to increase of appro--
priations.

W. H. PERKINS.

Which was read and adopted.

OFFICE SECRETARY OF THE SENATE,

Annapolis, March 19, 1878.

The following Senate bills having passed both branches of
the General Assembly of Maryland, were this day presented
to the Governor for his approval.

AUGUSTUS GASSAWAY,
Secretary.

No. 93. An Act to revive the Western Telegraph Company
by amending the 17th Section of the Act of 1846, Chapter
39, entitled an Act to incorporate the Magnetic Telegraph
Company.

No. 94. An Act to revive the Magnetic Telegnph Com-
pany by amending the 17th Section of the Act of 1846,
Chapter 39, entitled an Act to incorporate the Magnetic
Telegraph Company.