MARYLAND. 



507 



COMPANIES. 



Cumberland and Elk Lick Coal Company 



Despard Coal Company 



Gaston Coal Company 



George's Creek Coal and Iron Company 



Individuals 



Keystone Coal Company 



Maryland Coal Company 



National Coal Company 



New Central Coal Company 



Piedmont Coal and Iron Company 



West Virginia Central and Pittsburg liailway 

 Company 



Tons. Cwt. 

 3,969 17 

 1,501 11 

 4,001 15 



14,654 10 



17,850 07 

 404 19 



38,287 06 

 8,865 09 



33,61)4 19 

 3,673 01 



12,213 02 



816,648 07 



The long-disputed boundary question be- 

 tween the States of Maryland and Virginia 

 was considered in February, at Richmond, Va., 

 by a joint committee of the Legislatures of those 

 two States, appointed to confer and report on 

 a plan of settlement of the boundary -lines. 

 The conclusions of the report are as follow : 



1. That the following headlands of the Potomac 

 Eiver should be the points between which straight 

 lines should be drawn as and for the true boundary- 

 lines between the States of Virginia and Maryland, 

 under the award of J. T. Black and Charles 3. Jen- 

 kins, arbitrators appointed by the said States to fix the 

 said boundary-lines, to wit: Commencing at Smith's 

 Point, drawing thence a straight line to Cubit's Point, 

 drawing thence a straight line to Cubit's Island, 

 thence westerly to Judith's Point, a point on Judith's 

 Sound, thence westerly to Sandy Point, thence to 

 Bagged Point, thence to Church's Point, thence to 

 White Point, thence to the Upper Machodoc Point, 

 and from Upper Machodoc to Persimmon Point, 

 thence to Machais Point, thence to Matomkin Point, 

 thence to the land on the south shore abreast of Mary- 

 land Point to a point on the Potomac Creek opposite 

 Marlboro' Point, thence to Brentz Point, thence to 

 Clifton Point, thence to Cockpit Point, thence to 

 Freestone Point, thence to High Point, thence to Hol- 

 lowing Point, thence to Whitestone Point, thence to 

 Pevy Point, thence to Sheridan, thence along the 

 south shore to Alexandria, thence to Hunter's Point, 

 thence to Gravenny Point, following the south shore 

 and the meanderings of the river to the line of West 

 Virginia and Virginia. 



2. That oyster-dredging should be prohibited in 

 the Potomac River west from a line drawn from Point 

 Lookout, in Maryland, to the headland of Smith's 

 Point, in Virginia. 



3. That oyster- dredging should be prohibited in 

 Pocomoke Sound. 



4. That common rights of fishing and oystering 

 shall be enjoyed by the citizens of both States in 

 that part of Pocomoke Sound north and east of a 

 straight line commencing at Watkins Point, and run- 

 ning thence in a southeasterly direction to buoy B^ 

 No. 4, as it is now located upon coast-chart No. 33, of 

 the United States Coast Survey (sheet No. 3 2 Chesa- 

 peake Bay), filed as apart of said award of said Black 

 and Jenkins, making off from a shoal from Messongo 

 Creek, thence with a straight line to the northern 

 boundary of said creek. The rights in any creek or 

 inlet granted hereby by either State and the riparian 



protected in the same manner as is provided for in the 

 Potomac Eiver by the compact of 1785. This title to 

 be no longer binding if dredging is authorized by 

 either State. 



5. That there shall be concurrent jurisdiction be- 

 tween the States of Maryland and Virginia, by which 

 the violators of the oyster laws may be punished in 

 either State ; that a concurrent law be passed restrict- 

 ing the taking^ of oysters for any lawful purpose in 

 the Potomac Eiver and that part of Pocomoke Sound 

 covered by the concurrent act, from the 1st of October 

 to the 1st of May, and that they be taken for planting 

 or bedding, and may be planted or bedded in the 



waters of either State up to and including May 15th, 

 and during all of September, and strictly prohibiting 

 their bein^ taken for sale or planting from May 15th 

 to September 1st: Provided, hoivever, That they may 

 be taken to be eaten within the county where taken 

 at any time. And whereas the said committee have 

 recommended that an act be passed to ratify and 

 carry out the said agreement entered into by them 

 with each other, subject to the action of their respec- 

 tive Legislatures, as is witnessed by their signatures, 

 subscribed to this preamble as follows : 



Bond, F. M. Lancaster, John H. Cooper, on part of 

 Senate of Maryland ; John H. Handy, Isaac T. Cos- 

 ten, Sidney E. Mudd, on part of Delegates of Mary- 

 land. 



STATE INSTITUTIONS. The Board of Man- 

 agers of the Maryland Hospital for the Insane, 

 in their last report (November 1, 1882), give a 

 very favorable account of the management of 

 the institution, and of the health of tlie pa- 

 tients ; but they make the same complaint as 

 is made in many other States, of the inade- 

 quacy of the hospital for the accommodation 

 of the patients already under treatment, and 

 of the still larger number to whom admission 

 is refused from want of room. The income 

 of the hospital during the year was $89,- 

 431.86, of which the State contributed $16,- 

 250, and the city of Baltimore $24,161.82 ; and 

 the expenses were $89,269.80. The number of 

 patients admitted during the year was 164, of 

 whom 95 were males and 69 females. The 

 whole number treated during that time was 

 556, of whom 801 were males and 255 were 

 females. 



The Asylums for the Deaf and Dumb and 

 the Blind are reported to be in a flourishing 

 condition ; but, though they are doing a great 

 deal of good, all who need the training which 

 they afford are not to be found within their 

 walls. The work done in these institutions is 

 purely educational, and they should not be 

 confounded with reformatories or houses of 

 refuge. 



EDUCATION. The annual report of the State 

 Board of Education, submitted to the Govern- 

 or by Professor M. A. Newell, secretary, states 

 that there are 2,058 public schools in the State, 

 of which 1,937 are in the counties, and 121 in 

 the city of Baltimore. This is an increase of 

 19 as compared with last year. The total at- 

 tendance of pupils is reported as 159,945, of 

 whom 111,668 are in the county schools, and 

 48,277 in Baltimore an increase of 1,036 over 

 the attendance of 1881. These schools have 

 3,197 teachers, who receive in salaries $1,196,- 

 558.70, or an average of $374 each. The to- 

 tal expenses of the schools for the year were 

 $1,651.908.67. Professor Newell reports that 

 there are several schools in the State in which 

 the teachers are paid less than $300 per annum, 

 a sum for which the services of competent in- 

 structors can not be secured. It is suggested 

 that were the county school boards to limit 

 the number of schools as prescribed by law, 

 namely, one school to each district of four 



