584              JOURNAL OP PROCEEDINGS             [Mar. 3,

State Colonization Managers, to the Hon. the General Assembly
of Maryland.

We beg leave respectfully to state, as our apology for not hav-
ing transmitted our Report at an earlier day, that it has been de-
layed until the publication of the Report of the Board of Mana-
gers of the Maryland State Colonization Society, which has just
been completed, and to which reference is made in our Report.

We have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient ser-
vants,                     

Charles Howard,

                 Wm. F. Giles,

State Colonization Managers.

Office Md. State Colonization Society,                                 

Baltimore, March 1st, 1856.

To the Honorable the General Assembly of Maryland.

The Board of State Colonization Managers have the honor re-
spectfully to submit the following                                   

REPORT.

That by the Act of January session 1852, chapter —, the Board
of State Colonization Managers, as originally authorized to be ap-
pointed by the Act of December session 1831, chapter 281, was
continued in existence for the term of six years, with the same
powers and duties, which devolved upon them by the provisions
of said last mentioned act.

The Report upon which the Act of 1852 was founded, contained
a thorough examination of the whole subject of colonization, and
the renewal of the State's appropriation thereto, gave the most
emphatic sanction and approval to the course of policy which had
previously been pursued by the Board of State Managers, and which
had by them been in their various reports to the General Assem-
bly set forth and explained in the fullest manner.

It had been shown that, after several years experience, the
Board had become convinced, that they could most efficiently and
most economically act in the matter of transporting emigrants to
Africa, and of making proper provision for their reception and es-
tablishment there by operating through the Maryland State Colo-
nization Society, a body incorporated at the same session which
created the Board of State Managers, as a part of the means de-
vised to carry out the same great plan, and of which society, the
persons selected by the Executive to constitute the State Board
were required to be Members. In accordance with this policy, it
has been shown that from the year 1838 inclusive to the year 1851,
when the act of 1831 expired by its own limitation, the Managers of
the State fund, as such, made no shipments of emigrants, or provis-