454 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar 10,

Mr. Walsh, from the Committee on Finance, reported
unfavorably,

Senate bill entitled an Act to repeal and re-enact Section
1 of chapter 403, of the Acts of 1874, entitled an Act for the
relief of the Cambridge Female Seminary.
On motion by Mr. Phelps,

Said bill was substituted (or the unfavorable repot, and
made the order of the day lor Tuesday, March 14th, at 1
o'clock.

Mr. Steiner, (by unanimous consent,) submitted the follow-
ing

MEMORIAL,

To the Honorable Senate and Bouse of Delegates

of the State of Maryland.

Your Memoralist, A. J. Marshall, of Virginia, respectfully
represents that he is the inventor of a new plan and method
of Canal construction, whereby many of the evils that now
hinder and detract from the usefulness of canals, and increase
the cost of transportation will be obviated and substantially
removed.

Your Memorialist claims that his "new method" will
greatly lessen the first cost of future canals, and will im-
prove and expedite their navigation in most important re-
spects.

First. That it will secure a more abundant water for navi-
gation by economizing the water supply, and by imparting
to canals a new faculty of hoarding in reserve surplus water
in their levels.

Second. That it will expedite navigation by giving higher
lift to the locks, and thereby lessening their number, more-
over that this new plan of lock will pass boats in less time
than the present lock.

Third. That this higher lift for locks will give longer
levels for the canal and will afford better choice for location
of its prism and for selection of foundations for its locks.

Fourth. That canals can hereafter have higher location,
and will not be forced into dangerous approach to the current
of their parent stream by the necessities of water supply; and
consequently that they will be freed from casualties of over-
flow, and wash of embankment and of mud deposits, which
now delay their navigation and constitute the greatest cost
of their repair.

Your memorialist will take occasion here to remark, that
there has been no substantial change in the mode or system
of constructing canals for many generations. The general