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connection with these, graded courses in form 

 study, drawing, and manual training have been 

 arranged. The enrollment is nearly 500, and 

 the average daily attendance is over 450. The 

 building was erected at a cost of $85,000, and 

 equipped at a cost of $15,000 ; it is open with- 

 out any charge for books, apparatus, or any other 

 facility. The endowment fund for the institute 

 was $957,750. which by wise management has 

 increased to $1,210,000. The endowment was 

 made by Hon. Jacob Tome, who is one of the 

 board of trustees, his wife, Evalyn S. Tome, be- 

 ing president of the board. 



The McDonough School, founded in 1873, 

 this year gave instruction to 140 boys. All are 

 trained by military drill. Music and manual 

 training are distinctive features of the school. 

 The original fund for the establishment and 

 maintenance of this school was less than $750,- 

 000, but the last annual report of the trustees of 

 the McDonough fund for the city of Baltimore 

 gives the present value of the trust as $1,117,- 

 814.09. This does not include bequests made 

 by Dr. Zenas Barnum and Samuel H. Tagart. 



In the Asylum and Training School for the 

 Feeble-minded, at Rosewood, between 60 and 70 

 children were cared for during the year, the 

 sexes being about even. This institution has 

 been in existence six years. 



The annual report of the Superintendent of 

 the Hospital for the Insane for the year ending 

 Oct. 31, 1894, calls attention to the overcrowd- 

 ing of the hospital. It is required to accommo- 

 date only 400 patients, but during the year a 

 daily average of 458 have been cared for. On 

 Oct. 31 there were upon the rolls 470 persons 

 254 males and 216 females. Of these only 23 

 were private patients. The price fixed by law 

 for each public patient is $150 ; but this amount 

 is not paid, the city of Baltimore and the vari- 

 ous counties owing the hospital, for 1894 and 

 previous years, $23,052.96. 



Census Statistics. A census bulletin, issued 

 this year, shows that in 1890 there were in Mary- 

 land 202,179 families, of which 77,217 own their 

 homes, 56,290 being free from incumbrance; 

 41,372 of these families live on farms : and of 

 these, 25,969 own their farms, 18,175 being free 

 from incumbrance. 



The total available agricultural land in Mary- 

 land that is not under cultivation is nearly 2,500,- 

 000 acres nearly half of the total available 

 agricultural area of the State. The area of un- 

 cultivated land that could be brought under 

 cultivation, either by drainage or by other 

 means, is 766,645 acres, of which 688,645 acres 

 are woodland. 



In the manufacture of cotton duck the Mary- 

 land mills stood at the head. During the census 

 year Maryland manufactured 21,225,862 square 

 yards, valued at $3,901,110. The total produc- 

 tion of cotton duck in the United States that 

 year was 55,192,538 square yards, valued at 

 $8,664,395. The 4,313 employees of the mills in 

 1890 received $1,134.445 in wages. 



The valuation of real and personal property 

 was as follows : Real estate, including improve- 

 ments, $745,307,917; live stock on farms, etc., 

 implements and machinery, $25,734,410 ; mines 

 and quarries and product on hand, $20,770,825 ; 

 gold, silver, coin, and bullion, $19,335,876 ; ma- 



chinery of mills and product on hand, $58,727,- 

 020: railroads (including street railways) and 

 equipments, $66,733,915 ; telegraphs, telephones, 

 shipping, and canals, $18,551,391 ; miscellaneous 

 $130,311,694; total, $1,085,473,048. The num- 

 ber of building associations is given at 237, with 

 63,187 shareholders and 18,107 borrowers. 



Boundary and Fishery Rights. In April 

 the Supreme Court of the United States decided 

 that the compact of 1785 between Maryland and 

 Virginia is still in existence and of obligatory 

 force upon both States; that the compact gives 

 no right to the citizens of Maryland to fish in 

 the waters of Pocomoke river; and that Poco- 

 moke river and Pocomoke Sound, until 1877, 

 were considered as separate and distinct bodies 

 of water. 



To determine the boundary, a survey was be- 

 gun in October, 1894. When this is completed 

 the necessary plats and reports will be submitted 

 to the Supreme Court of the United States, in 

 which a bill was filed by Attorney-General 

 Whyte, in the name of the "State of Maryland, 

 against the State of West Virginia, for a settle- 

 ment of the boundary line. The controversy 

 embraces a wedge of territory three quarters 

 of a mile wide at the base, and 37 miles long, 

 containing about 500,000 acres of land. If 

 Maryland's claim is established, the present 

 boundary line between Garrett County, Mary- 

 land, and Preston County, Virginia, 'will be 

 changed to that extent. 



The joint committee from Maryland and Vir- 

 ginia reported to the Legislature of each State 

 a law providing for beginning the tonging sea- 

 son on Sept. 1, and ending it April 25 ; and be- 

 ginning the dredging season on Oct. 15, ending ' 

 it March 15. It was enacted in both States, and 

 received the Governors' signatures. 



Canal Commission. In the last river and 

 harbor appropriation bill provision was made 

 for the appointment of a board of 5 expert com- 

 missioners to determine, from the surveys here- 

 tofore made under the direction of the War 

 Department, the most feasible route for the con- 

 struction of the Delaware and Chesapeake Canal. 

 The board was appointed in October, and on 

 Dec. 11 made public its report in favor of the 

 Back Creek route, which is substantially on the 

 line of the existing Chesapeake and Delaware 

 Canal. The board estimates that a canal with 

 27 feet of water along this route will cost 

 $7,600,000, which would be cheaper by several 

 millions than any of the other proposed routes. 

 The length of the proposed canal, measuring 

 from Baltimore to a point at sea 12 miles out- 

 side of the Delaware breakwater, is 150 miles; 

 length of canal proper (or of excavations gener- 

 ally above low water), 13'63 miles ; time of tran- 

 sit allowing 10 miles an hour in open channel, 

 7 miles in dredged channel, and 5 miles in canal 

 proper seventeen hours; saving in time, six- 

 teen and a quarter hours; distance, 175 miles. 



Decisions. The circuit court of Frederick 

 County, on an appeal, decided that, according 

 to the act of 1804, a person living on or near a 

 turnpike within 3 miles of a tollgate can not 

 be compelled to pay toll more than once every 

 twenty-four hours. He may drive through a 

 gate with horse and buggy, and by paying one 

 toll have his employees pass through every mo- 



