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color with the appearance of the buildings and the back step of
the inmates with hands behind them, give the whole the air of
a prison, not in keeping with onr modern ideas of a juvenile
reformatory. Your Committee found in this Institution two
hundred and fifty-six boys, mostly from the City of Baltimore,
committed for minor offences, learning to make shoes, brooms
and baskets, and casing demijohns—they were also studying
the common English branches and music. We found its effi-
cient manager, Dr. Charles A. Leas, with his able corps of
assistants, doing their full duty. Your committee would recom-
mend that a large farm more removed from Baltimore than
the present site, should be purchased, and buildings with all
the modern improvements and economies for work be erected
thereon ; otherwise if the present location is retained, a change
in the mode of heating; shade for play-grounds, and baths are
recommended. Continued support to this reformatory is
recommended.

St. Mary's Industrial School was next visited by the Com-
mittee, this school is on the Maiden Choice road, near that
station on the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad, about two
miles from Baltimore, and contains about one hundred and ten
acres of land, now successfnlly used as a farm school. A visit
to this school afforded us great satisfaction. It looked more
like a hive of busy bees than any institution thus far visited.
The day was a dull, cloudy day, when most farmers are in
doors—such a day as tobacco raisers call a good day for strip-
ping—but every one was at his post and in motion. Here some
farming, grubbing and taking up stumps, some gardening, shoe-
making, tailoring, baking, cooking, whitewashing and running
a printing press—and about half the number in the school
roomlj making rapid progress in their respective studies. The
number of boys at present in the institution is two hundred
and four, most of them sent here for trivial offences, and are
maintained and educated at an expense each of ninety dollars
per annum. Indeed the good order and system everywhere
prevailing, and the manifest air of content, and the economy
of maintaining these boys here instead of in jail or almshouse,
renders it a duty to encourage and foster this institution.—
Your Committee therefore recommend continued and increased
support to this very deserving institution.

Your Committee next visited the House of Reformation, in-
stitution for colored children. This institution is situated ten
miles from Upper Marlboro', in Prince George's coanty, about
thirty-eight miles from Baltimore, on a farm donated for that
purpose by a public spirited and charitable citizen of Baltimore,
Enoch Pratt, Esq. The farm contains seven hundred and
seventy-two acres, and cost at trustee's sale over twenty-two
thousand dollars, which has since been improved by private
donations and appropriations from city and State. There is