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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 407.

AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money to com-

plete and ornament the cemetery provided for the

interment of the remains of the Confederate dead

at Point Lookout.

WHEREAS, at the session of eighteen hundred and

seventy, an act, chapter eighty-five, section one, was

passed to appropriate three thousand dollars to pur-

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chase a lot of ground, not exceeding two acres, situ-

ated on or near the site of the late camp for Confeder-

ate prisoners at Point Lookout, in St. Mary's county,

in which to inter the remains of Confederate soldiers

who died at said point while prisoners of war, and

for enclosing and ornamenting the same ; and —

WHEREAS, certain commissioners were appointed

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to carry out the same ; and —

WHEREAS, by a communication made.to this Gen-

eral Assembly of Maryland by the President of the

Board of Commissioners, it appears that the sum so.

appropriated has been expended in exhuming and

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interring the Confederate dead, numbering three

thousand, four hundred and four, and in placing an

iron enclosure around the grounds, leaving only of

said appropriation undrawn from the treasury, the

small balance of four hundred and seventy-two dol-

lars; and —

WHEREAS, said balance is entirely inadequate to

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complete the work and carry out the purpose of the

commissioners ; therefore —

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the sum of one thousand dollars be

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and the same is hereby appropriated to further im-
prove and complete Point Lookout Cemetery, by the

commissioners aforesaid, as a place set aside for the

interment of the Confederate dead.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That the Treasurer, upon the

warrant of the Comptroller, be and he is hereby di-

Directed to pay

rected to pay to the order of the President of the