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Preamble.
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WHEREAS, from the ruinous and desolating ef-
fects of the late terrible war, the people of our
Southern Sister States are still in a most impover-
ished and suffering condition, many of them with-
out the necessaries of life, and not a few reduced
to starvation for the want of food ; and whereas
there is a deep and abiding feeling in the hearts
of all true Marylanders which demands of this
General Assembly a recognition of their claims to
our sympathies and regards; and whereas the ladies
of our City of Baltimore, as well as of every por-
tion of our good old State, have, in their devices
to afford them relief, developed the highest attri-
butes of their sex, and discovered not only a capaci-
ty to sympathize with their sufferings, but to do
and administer the trusts confided to their care ;
and whereas we have the fullest confidence that
moneys placed in their hands will be most advan-
tageously used to carry out our wishes and secure
the largest possible alleviation of the sufferings
of our brothers and sisters of the South, therefore,
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Thank offer
ing.
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SECTION 1. Se it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That as a thank offering for the
many blessings we have received, and for our ex-
emption from the severe afflictions with which the
States of the South have been visited, that we ap-
propriate and set aside the sum of twenty thousand
dollars, to be paid to the ladies of the City of Bal-
timore, to be by them disbursed in such manner
as shall best secure the largest amount of relief to
the suffering people, and especially the suffering
females of the South.
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