1870.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 575

position has been made of the funds heretofore appropriated
by the State for the National Cemetery at Sharpsburg, Wash-
ington county, by the Trustees of said Cemetery, would most
respectfully report, that in obedience to said Joint Resolu-
tion, they had before them, in Joint Committee, Thomas A.
Boullt, Esq., the Secretary and Treasurer of said Cemetery,
and from him learned that the sum of fifteen thousand dol-
lars has been received from the State of Maryland, and ex-
pended in the construction of said Cemetery, and that by
virtue of an Act of 1868. chapter 104, the sum of five thou-
sand dollars was appropriated for the interment of the Con-
federate dead who fell in the battles of Antietam, South
Mountain, Monocacy, and Crampton Gap, and that said sum
so appropriated as aforesaid, still remains in the Treasury of
the State. Your Committee would further report, that the
requirement of the Act incorporating the Antietam National
Cemetery, making it the duty of the Trustees to devote a
portion of said Cemetery to the interment of said Confederate
soldiers has been persistently ignored and violated, and the
said Trustees finally, in December, 1869, reiused to allow
the said Confedeiafe dead to be interred within the said
Cemetery

In view, therefore, of the said bum of five thousand dollars
so as aforesaid appropriated not yet being used, and of the per-
sistent refusal of said Trustees to allow the requirements of
the charter in this respect to be carried out; and in view of
the fact that the remains of many thousands of Confederate
soldiers now lie scattered along the road-sides and in the
fields of Washington and Frederick counties, Maryland, and
Adams county, Pennsylvania, your Committee would sug-
gest that the said sum of five thousand dollars so as aforesaid
appropriated, be devoted to the purchase and erection of a
separate Cemetery, to be located at Hagerstown, in Washing-
ton county, to be named the Washington Cemetery, wherein
the remains of the Confederate dead from the aforesaid battle
fields, and also from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, shall be in-
terred, and to that end have instructed the Chairman to
report the following bill.

THOS. B. GATCH,
JOHN B. THOMAS,
ALEX. NEILL,
J. C. CLARKE,
C. H. HYLAND.
Which was read, and
On motion of Mr. White,
Adopted.

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