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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 497.

AN ACT to provide for the further publication of the
Archives of Maryland.

Archives of
Maryland.

WHEREAS, By Chapter one hundred and thirty-eight of
the Acts of the General Assembly, passed at the Session of
eighteen hundred and eighty-two, the Maryland Historical
Society was appointed custodian of the records, archives and
ancient documents of the province and State as therein pro-
vided, on condition that said society shall safely keep,
properly arrange and catalogue the same, and shall edit and
publish under its supervision such of the same as were of his-
torical importance; and,

Preamble.

WHEREAS, The said society, out of its own means, has
constructed an expensive vault for the safe-keeping of said
records, and has on its part complied with all the provisions
of said Act and of subsequent Acts, and it is proper that the
publication of said archives should be continued with
diligence and care under the supervision of said society;
therefore,

Appropriation
to Maryland
Historical
Society.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the sum of two thousand dollars for each year for
the period of two years from this date be and the same is
hereby appropriated, and shall be paid to the said Mary-
land Historical Society out of any funds in the Treasury
not otherwise appropriated, which sum shall be paid one
thousand dollars on the first day of June and December of the
years 1900 and 1901.

Property of
the State.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Archives of Maryland,
published by the said society with the funds herein provided,
shall, as provided by the Act of eighteen hundred and eighty-
two, Chapter one hundred and thirty-eight, be the property
of the State; provided, that said society may purchase such
volumes as it wishes for its members and exchanges at the

May purchase
at cost.

cost of paper, press-work and binding, and shall be authorized
to sell others at cost; the proceeds of all sales to be added to
the publication fund and used only therefor; and provided
further, that ten copies of each volume of the archives published
by said Maryland Historical Society shall be bound in cloth

Distribution
of.

and deposited in the. State Library for the use thereof, and
that the said society be and it is hereby authorized, without
being required to pay therefor; to send a copy of each of the
volumes that have been or may be published to the respective
State librarians of the several states of the union, and also to