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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and Comptroller may be necessary; for the payment of the annual ground rent on the tobacco warehouse lots in Baltimore, four hundred and forty-eight dollars and eleven cents.

COMMISSIONERS OF FISHERIES.

Commissioner

For the salary of a Commissioner or Commissioners of Fisheries, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

MILITIA.

Militia.

For the salary of the Adjutant General of the State, two thousand dollars; provided the said sum shall be paid out of the appropriation for the militia; for the support of the militia fifteen thousand dollars, and such further sum as may be collected from the sale of old arms to be used in the purchase of arms of improved pattern, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the supervision of the Governor, in accordance with the provisions of the act of eighteen hundred and seventy; for the pay-ment of pensions granted by acts and resolutions of the General Assembly, forty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

CONTINGENT FUND.

Contingent fund.

To the Executive for the contingent fund provided in the Constitution to be placed at his disposal, seven thousand five hundred dollars; for the contingent fund of the Treasury Department, fifteen hundred dollars; for printing blank licenses, protests, circulars, warrants, and for books and expenses of Comptroller's office, two thousand dollars; for the contingent fund of the library, including the expense of postage, porterage and freight, stationery for the use of the office, menial services, advertising and printing, five hundred dollars; for the augmentation of the Library, two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; for the cost of printing the annual report of the Comptroller, one thousand dollars; for the expense of fuel and light for the public buildings and grounds to be expended under the direction and control of the Governor, by