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ed sundry proposals, both for the sale of
warehouses and of vacant lots; upon deliberate
consideration, we on the seventeenth day of
June last, determined to accept the offers ef
Williams & O'Donnell, Cumberland Dugan,
and Moses Sheppard, herewith submitted. Wil-
liams & O'Donnell and Moses Sheppard have
complied with their respective contracts, and
conveyed the property offered by them to the
state; but Mr. Dugan has declined to fulfil the
contract for the property offered by him. We
submit for your consideration the correspon-
dence that has passed between Mr. Dugan and
us relative thereto, that you may have a full
understanding of the whole subject, and de-
termine whether the contract shall be aban-
doned, or legal proceedings instituted against
Mr. Dugan to enforce his compliance—no hope
being left of settling the business any other way.
Under the act making it our duty "on or be-
fore the first day cf August next, (now last), to
procure and deliver to the levy courts of each
of the several counties in this state, a standard
of each of the several kinds of weights and mea-
sures, used at the custom house in the city of
Baltimore," we applied to the collector of the
customs in that city, for information on the sub-
ject,and a list of all the weights and measures
used in his office. And having obtained from
that attentive officer the information and list
asked for, we consulted with a gentleman of