EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 129.

AN ACT placing at the disposal of the Board of Public

Works of this State, Hon. Thos. H. Robinson, chairman

of the Finance Committee of the Senate of Maryland, and

the Hon. Edward G. Goslin, chairman of the Ways and Means

Committee of the House of Delegates of Maryland, the

sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the

relief of cases of destitution and need caused by the fire in

Baltimore of February 7 and 8, 1904; and for the payment

out of said money of the militia of the State who were called

out for service in Baltimore immediately after said fire.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars

$250,000 as a

is hereby placed as a contingent fund at the disposal of the

contingent
fund to re-

Board of Public Works of the State, the Hon. Thos. H.

lieve destitu-

Robinson, chairman of the Finance Committee of the Senate

tion caused
by the great

of Maryland, and the Hon. Edward E. Goslin, chairman of

fire.

the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Delegates,

to be expended by them to such an extent as they may deem

necessary to relieve cases of destitution and need caused by

the great fire in Baltimore of February 7 and February 8,

1904. And the Board of Public Works and the chairman of

the two committees above named in expending the said money

for the purpose aforesaid shall employ such persons or agen-

cies as they may think best for successfully relieving those

in need. And the Comptroller of the State is hereby author-

ized from time to time to draw his warrants upon the Treas-

urer of the State to the order of such persons and in such

How money is
to be paid

amounts as the Board of Public Works and the chairmen of

out.

the two committees above named shall direct., the amounts

of said warrants (including the amounts paid to the

militia, as provided in the following section of this Act),

not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of two hundred and

fifty thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Board of Public Works

and the chairmen of the two committees above named shall

State militia to

first set aside out of the money herein appropriated sufficient

be paid for
services ren-

money to pay the whole cost of the service of the militia who

dered.

were called out at the time of said fire for service in or near

the burnt district of Baltimore. The payment of militia shall

be made in the usual manner, but the intent of this Act is that