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sion to which both have come, is, that twenty-five thousand
dollars would not at all exceed what may be set down as
necessary.

The Commissioners neither ask nor will receive compensa-
tion for their services, but such a collection of the arts, man-
ufactures, and products of the soil and mine of the State, as
their appointment contemplates, does not make itself, nor
can the interest, or the opportunities of individuals, be relied
on to furnish it. It must be gathered by special agencies,
and these must be paid.

It must not be distributed sporadically through the vast
halls that have been erected, a roll of cotton-duck in one
place, a case of shoes in another, copper from the bare hills
in another, iron from Alleghany in another, models of the
fish of Maryland, here, specimens of the woods, there—all
should be collected, arranged, classified and attended in one
place, a work requiring intelligence of a high order, which
must also be paid for ; and when the Maryland collection is
complete, it should be in charge of one or more persons capa-
ble of describing it properly, and securing for it that consid-
eration, among the tens of thousands of visitors, which will
be its due, if Maryland does herself justice. Then it must
be watched, and labor, more or less, in connection therewith,
will be necessary during the entire exhibition, and in dispos-
ing of the articles exhibited, and removing them when the
exhibition is over.

Clerical services also will be wanted to keep the accounts
of expenditures and attend to correspondence with exhibitors
from Maryland, and others, and in addition, must be paid
for.

Willing as the Commissioners might be. they would be
utterly incompetent, even physically, to do a tithe of what
would be necessary in these various respects.

Then again it has seemed to the Commissioners, after ob-
taining information upon the spot, that the proper transac-
tion of what may be called the business of their appoint-
ment, requires that there should be a temporary building,
reputable in appearance, for the offices of those whom the
Commisioners might employ, which might be used by the
Governor and such State officials as might have occasion to
resort to it, during the continuance of the Exhibition, and
which should also contain one or more reception rooms for
the visitors from Maryland, where they might feel they had
a right to be, and over which the flag of Maryland should at
all times he flying.

To those who have never visited the Centennial grounds, it
may seem straage that all this preparation is suggested even,