802 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

	CHAPTER 416.
	AN ACT appointing a Committee with authority to purchase a lot or lots of ground in the city of Annapolis, and causing to be erected thereon a mansion for the Governor of this State, and making an appropriation therefor.
Committee.	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Governor of this State, the Honorable John C. Walsh of the Senate, the Honorable Thomas W. Hammond, the Hon. John S. Brown, and the Hon. Ferdinand C. Latrobe, members of the House of Delegates, be and they are hereby appointed a Committee, and as such they are hereby authorized to purchase a lot or lots of ground in the city of Annapolis, for the purpose of erecting thereon a mansion as a resi- dence for the Governor of this State ; provided, that the title to the said property shall first be examined by the Attorney General, and reported by him to be good ; and provided further, that the said Committee shall report to the General Assem- bly of Maryland the site selected by them, which report shall be confirmed and adopted by the Gen- eral Assembly before the Committee shall close such purchase.
Erect a mansion.	Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That after the pur- chase of the said lot or lots of ground by the said Committee, as authorized and provided in the first Section of this Act, they, the said Committee, are hereby authorized and directed to cause to be erected thereon a mansion as a residence for the Governor of this State, or if in their judgment they may see fit to adapt by such improvement or alteration as may be necessary any building al- ready on said ground to such purpose, and to have improved the grounds annexed thereto ; provided, that the cost of the erection or adaption and alter- ation of the said building and improvement of the grounds, including the purchase of the lot or lots of ground as provided for in the first Section of this Act, shall not exceed in cost the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars.