pay O. G. Hayden, Inspector General of Grain, for services
rendered,

And the report was adopted.
On motion by Mr. Earle,

The vote was reconsidered by which the report was adopted,
and the bill postponed.

Mr. Henkle, from the Select Committee to whom was
referred House bill entitled an Act to provide for maintaining
and keeping in repair the public roads of Anne Arundel
county, and to repeal the Act passed at the January session
1868, chapter 299, so far as applies to Anne Arundel county,
reported it without amendment.

Said bill was then read the second time.

Mr. Henkle, from the Committee on Internal Improve-
ments, to whom the subject was referred, submitted the fol-
lowing

REPORT:

To the Honorable the Senate of Maryland:

The Committee on Internal Improvements, to whom was
referred the order of your Honorable Body requiring them to
"inquire into the expediency of having established at or near
the county seat of each county of this State, lines not exceed-
ing sixty perches inlength, corresponding with the true me-
ridians of such places, and to determine at the same time the
geographical latitude and longitude of the station occupied by
the instrument employed in such operation," beg most re-
spectfully to report that they have given the subject all the
consideration that their time and opportunities have permit-
ted, but not by any means so much as the great importance
of the subject demands, nor as they themselves desired.

The object of the Honorable Senator who offered the order
was undoubtedly to have erected in each county seat of the
State a true meridian line, accurately and permanently estab-
lished and protected by law, in order that a ready, conve-
nient and. reliable standard might always exist by which
surveyors and others might test their instruments and ascer-
tain from time to time their variation from the true meridian.
There can be no doubt, in the opinion of your Committee,
that if such reliable standards had been established long
since in our State, much perplexity and labor would have
been saved in the tracing of old lines, and also many tedious,
angry and. expensive suits in our Courts avoided..

Your Committee are also firmly convinced that the estab-
lishment of such standards now, and also standards of meas-
urement by which surveyors may from time to time test