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Annex, and I heartily recommend that ample provision be made
for this purpose.

Not only in Annapolis, but elsewhere the State has recently
erected some handsome and substantial public buildings, nota-
bly the Fifth Regiment Armory, the Maryland Penitentiary and
the Springfield State Hospital. All these buildings are of the
most modern character and admirably adapted to the purposes
for which they were erected.

In order that you may have some idea as to what the State
has been doing in this direction, I submit the following table,
which, by the way, does not include any sums spent for State
buildings, such as Armory for Troop A, Maryland Agricultural
College, Asylum and Training School for Feeble-Minded, Emer-
gency Hospital at Annapolis, etc.

Maryland Penitentiary.......................... $1,250,000

Springfield State Hospital....................... 480,000

Annexes to House of Correction.................. 170,000

Fifth Regiment Armory......................... 420,000

Heating Plant and furnishing at Annapolis....... 140,000

Court of Appeals Building....................... 290,000

Annex to State House.......................... 250,000

Total ................................... $3,000,000

CONCLUSION.

It has been my aim in the aforegoing summary, of the various
tables of this Report, to bring before your Honorable body
every fact that bears upon the financial condition of the State,
so that in dealing with the question of appropriations and other
important financial matters which will be brought before you
and upon which you will be called upon to pass, you may have
a clear and intelligent understanding of the exact situation.
The high credit of the State and the excellent condition of its
finances will be, I doubt not, a matter of satisfaction to your
Honorable body.

In retiring from the office of Comptroller, which I have had
the honor to fill during the past four years—that I may go
back into private life—I beg to renew my obligations to Hon.