1856.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES.             585

ions for their settlement in Africa; these objects having been ac-
complished through the medium of the Maryland State society, of
the board of Managers of which the State Managers are members,
having thus a full knowledge of, and having given their approval
to all measures of any importance which that society have adopted.

The Board of State Managers deem it unnecessary in this Re-
port to give a detailed account of the proceedings of the State
society Curing the past two years, respectfully asking leave as
heretofore, to refer your Honorable Body to the Reports and Doc-
uments of the Maryland State Society for ample and interesting
information as to the history, progress, and present condition of
the colony of Maryland in Liberia. This is now a sell-governed
and independent State, but the Maryland State Society, though
they have relinquished all claim whatsoever to political supremacy
over it, still enjoy all the necessary rights and privileges to enable
them, as they have heretofore done, to transport thither the free
colored people of this State, and to endow them on their arrival
there with land for their abiding homes.

The number of manumissions in this State since the 1st of Jan-
uary 1854, as reported to this board is 314, of which 115 were
to take immediate effect, and 199 were prospective. The entire
number reported to the Board since its organization in 1832 has
been 4,877, of which 1,839 were immediate, and 3,038 pro-
spective.

The amount drawn by the State Managers from the Treasury
from January 1st 1854 to January 1st 1856 is twenty thousand dol-
lars, making the total amount drawn since the passage of the act
of 1852 forty thousand dollars. The whole of this amount has
been and is being expended by the Maryland State Colonization
Society under the inspection of the Board of State Managers in
the removal of free persons of color from Maryland to Africa, and
in providing for their establishment and support as tar as is ne-
cessary, according to the provisions of the several acts of the
General Assembly, above mentioned.

Respectfully submitted.                   

Charles Howard,
Wm f. Giles,
                                  State Colonization Managers.

Md. State Colonization Office,                                             

Baltimore, January 1st, 1856.             

Which was referred to the Committee on Colored Population.

Mr. Merrick offered a resolution relating to the arrears due the
State of Maryland by the United States for and on account of ad-
vances and expenditures during the war of 1812, with England;

Which was read the first time.