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do so, and uniformly found them to be kept strictly accord-
ing to law.

Your Committee would not have con'siderei it necessary to
have examined all the warrants for expenditures, as no
charge of any improper expenditure has been made, but the
Comptroller insisted that for his protection, they should go
over the entries and warrants seriatim and examine into the
legality and propriety of them all.

Tour Committee take pleasure in reporting to the Legisla-
ture that they do not think it possible that the business of
the Treasury Department could be conducted with more
scrupulous watchfulness, or more exac ly in conformity with
the Constitution and laws, than is done by the present officers.
Respectfully submitted,

WM. T. HEPBRON, Chairman,
JOHN CARROLL WALSH,
JAMES FENNER LEE,
A. P. GORMAN,

On the part of the Senate.
D. W. SNOWDEN, Chairman
FETTER S. HOBLITZELL,
W. H, NEAL,

C. WASHINGTON LEWIS,
IGN. E. MATTINGLY,

On the part of the House.
Which was adopted.
Also, by Mr. Hepbron, from same Committee :

REPORT.
To the Honorable the Senate and

House of Delegates of Maryland :

The undersigned, the Joint Committee of the Senate and
House of Delegates, appointed under by virtue of Article 3,
Section 24, of the Constitution, and to whom was reierred,
among other matters, the following order, adopted in the
House of Delegates, January, 18th, 1876, to wit: "And be it
further ordered, That said Committee also inquire whether
the charges made in the Republican press dm ing the past
campaign, that a public officer of this State, attempted here-
tofore to procure the passage of a law to provide a pension
for a man from Somerset county, who was not entitled there-
to, is true or false, beg leave to report, that they did, at a
meeting of said Committee, in older to facilitate the inves-
tigations into the various matters with which they were
specially charged, appoint five members of the same to take
the testimony in regard to said order, to wit: Messrs. Walsh,
Lee, Neal, Lewis and Farrow, who, in discharge of the duty