JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 135

CHAPTER 87.

AN ACT to provide for the proper representation
of the State of Maryland at the celebration of the

one hundredth Anniversary of American Indepen-
dence.

SECTION 1. Be if enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the purpose of de- fraying the expenses incident to the representation of the manufactures, the products of the soil and mines of the State, and its progress at the Interna- tional Exhibition to be held in the City of Philadel- phia, in the State of Pennsylvania in the present year.	Appropriated
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said sum so appropriated, shall be disbursed by, and under the di- rection of John H. B. Latrobe and Samuel M. Shoe- maker, or their successors, Commissioners on the commission, authorized and constituted under and by virtue of an act of the Congress of the United States, to provide for celebrating the one hundredth Anni- versary of American Independence, and that said com- missioners, or their successors are hereby authorized and empowered to expend the said sum of money, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the pur-	Disbursed by.
poses aforesaid, in their discretion, and the Comp- troller is hereby directed to draw warrants upon the treasurer for such sums as said commissioners may require, not exceeding the amount herein appropri- ated, and the treasurer be and is hereby directed to pay the same.	Draw war- rants.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from the date of its approval by the Governor. Approved March 23, 1876.	In force.