1876.] OF THE SENATE. 577

The President announced the order of the day to be the
following bills:

First.—Senate bill entitled an Act to repeal chap. 325, of
the Acts of 1872, entitled an Act to repeal Sec. 69, of the
Act of 1868, chap. 471, entitled an Act to repeal Art, 26, of
the Code of Public General Laws, and to enact a substitute,
and to repeal Sec, 22, of Art. 16, Sec. 99 to 103, of the same
Article, and Sections 33 to 43, of Art. 88, of the Code of
Public General Laws, and to re-enact the same with amend-
ments,

Being upon its second reading,
On motion by Mr. Bannon,

Was recommitted to the Committee on Judicial Proceed-
ings.

Second.—Senate bill entitled an Act to repeal Sections 1
to 13, (both inclusive,) of Art. 44, of the Code of Public
General Laws, title "Maryland Hospital," and to enact in
lieu thereof the following to be arranged as Sections of said
Article of the Code.

Pending the consideration of said bill,

Mr. Bannon, (by unanimous consent,) from the Committee
on Public Buildings, submitted the following

REPORT.

The Committee on Public Buildings beg leave to submit
the following report in relation to the Maryland Hospital at
Spring Grove.

Your Committee visited the Maryland Hospital, at Spring
Grove, situated near Catonsville, in Baltimore county, seven
miles from Baltimore, and found it located on a tract of land
containing one hundred and thirty-seven (137) acres, com-
manding a fine view of Baltimore city, the bay and sur-
ronnding country for many miles. The improvements con-
sist of a large hospital built of granite, in a very substantial
manner, with gas house, hot-house, gardner's dwelling,
stabling, &c. We found the hospital capable of comforta-
bly atfording accommodation for three hundred and twenty-
five patients—there were, however, on the day of our visit,
February 12th, 1876, only one hundred and seventy-eight
insane in the institution, sixty-four of whom paid for their
own maintenance, and were no tax on the hospital: the re-
maining one hundred and fourteen were sent to the hospital
by the order of the Circuit Courts for the various counties
and the City of Baltimore, and the sum of two hundred dol-
lars per annum levied by the County Commissioners, or the
City Council, for each of these insane paupers, and paid over
by the different counties and City of Baltimore, to the Presi-