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1876.] OF THE HOUSE OP DELEGATES, 1023
'ties of the State is very far below a proper compensation.
The tardiness with which the pittance is paid in many places,
is a crying shame. In the name of this large body of public
servants, as well as in behalf of the tax-payers of this State,
your Committee protest against the appropriation of public
money to personal enterprises and institutions which have no
relation to our educational system but that of dwarfing it
by sharing the support it ought to get. The efficiency of the
public schools should be the object of our regard; their door s
should stand open wide, because their influence, like the gen-
tle and genial dew of Heaven, falls alike upon the lofty and
the lowly. If ever there was a necessity that the public Trea-
sury should be drafted to support institutions of learning, in
which the State had no interest of ownership, and over which
she had no control, that time has pavssed. It is a matter of
little concern to the people of this State whether the Balti-
more Female College lives or dies, but it is a concern to them
that while the tweaty-five hundred dollars is being paid dut
of the Treasuiy quarterly upon the condition of twenty-five
free scholarships, that those scholarships should be vacant.
The academies, as a rule, are not above the grade the public
schools ought to occupy, while they receive by special appro-
priation a larger amount of aid than their services entitle
them to. Why should the State pay one hundred dollars per
pupil tor tuition in the elementary branches in a private in-
stitution, when in her own public schools the cost for the
same service would only be six.
Your Committee are clearly of the opinion that colleges
should not be given extravagant appropriations for doing the
legitimate work of grammar schools, and therefore ask to be
instructed to bring in a bill which will give to the several
boards of County School Commissioners the control of the ap-
propriations for the use of the academies in the several coun-
ties of this State. A bill to provide the conditions upon which
so much of the annual appropriation as they shall be entitled
to shall be paid to the several colleges of this State, and to
provide that unexpended balance of the aforesaid annual ap-
propriation, if any, shall go to the payment of the salaries of
the teachers of the public schools of this State.
AH of which is respectfully submitted.
JAS S. ROBINSON,
Chairman.
Which was read and ordered to be entered on the Jour-
nal.
Mr. Gopkey, Chairman, of a Select Committee, to whom
had been referred
The bill entitled an Act to empower the surviving Trustees
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