632 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS.         [Mar. 4,

Edward W. Belt, late Clerk of the Circuit Court for Prince
George's county, for certain fees due him by the State,

The Speaker laid before the House the following report :
Treasury Department,           

                                   Comptroller's Office,

           Annapolis, March 3d, 1856.

To the Honorable William H. Traver,

Speaker of the House of Delegates.

Sir---In compliance with an order of the House of Delegates re-

quiring "the Comptroller to report what benefit, if any, has been de-

rived by the Patapsco Female Institute from a Lottery, the draw-

ings of which were authorized by an Act passed by the General

Assembly of Maryland, at December session 1839, chapter 217,

for the benefit of said Institute," I have the honor to submit the

Female Institute under the provisions of the Act of 1839, above

mentioned:

July 2nd, 1844...............	.........$600 00
December 3d, 1844...........	766 50
December 24th, 1844.........	345 61
July 23d, 1845...............	545 34
December 30th, 1845.........	485 26
July 22nd, 1846.............	........ 612 85
July 28th, 1847.............	554 63
January 1st, 1848.	631 74
July 26th, 1848	619 15
July 2lst, 1849..............	596 26
January, 1850..............	...... 596 26
July 22nd, 1850.............	596 26
January 8th, 1851..........	596 26
July 28th, 1851............	471 60
	$8017 72

Very respectfully,                                             

Your obedient servant,

W. H. Purnell, Comptroller.

Which was read and referred to the Committee on Ways and

Mr. Stone from the Select committee reported favorably on a
bill entitled, an act amendatory of an act passed at January ses-
sion 1854, chapter 172, entitled, an act to regulate fisheries in
the waters of the Potomac river, within the jurisdiction of Mary-
land, and to protect the breed of fish therein;