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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter seventy-one, the whole to he expended
under the direction of the Committee provided by
said Act eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, the
sum of ten thousand dollars; for the person
employed to take charge of the Governor's
Mansion and the furnace thereof, five hundred
and forty dollars; for payment of present debt
of Maryland Hospital, sixteen thousand dol-
lars; for payment for sewerage for State House
and Governor's Mansion, done under the direction
of the Superintendent of Labor and Agriculture,
two thousand dollars; for grading, paving and
improving the grounds within the enclosure of the
Governor's Mansion, two thousand dollars, to be
expended under the direction of the Superintendent
of Labor and Agriculture, the work to be done by
special contract in writing; to pay for repairs done
at the Eastern Hay Scales, two hundred and sixty-
six dollars and fourteen cents : for repairs done to
wharf at State Tobacco Warehouse, one thousand
four hundred and thirty-one dollars; for erecting
additional sleeping apartments within the Mary-
land Penitentiary, thirty thousand dollars.

Treasurer to
pay.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the Treasurer
of the State shall, upon the warrant of the Comp-
troller, disburse the said sums of money herein
appropriated, for the objects and purposes speci-
fied, to or upon the order of the person or persons,
bodies politic or corporate severally entitled there-
to, and that the several public officers to whom
the same, or any part thereof may be paid, shall
render quarterly to the Comptroller, accounts of
the expenditures thereof, with the proper vouchers
thereof, verified by affidavits: except such parts
as may be disbursed out of the Executive contin-
gent fund upon the order of the Governor, or such
further part thereof as may be for, or on account
of salaries fixed by the Constitution and Laws of
the State; provided, that no unexpended appro-
priation shall be applied to deficiencies in any other
appropriation; and that no contract shall here-
aiter be made for any matter of public expenditure
without an appropriation being previously made
authorizing such expenditure.

In force.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 4, 1870.