JAS. BLACK GROOME. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 667

CHAPTER 445.
AN ACT to appropriate the sum of twelve thou-
sand dollars, or as much thereof as may be neces-
sary, to add a tire-proof addition to the building
known as the Comptroller's office, in the City of
Annapolis.
WHEREAS, The Committee on Public Buildings in	Preamble.
pursuance of an order passed by the House of Dele-
gates, authorizing them to secure the services of an
architect to prepare plans for an addition and im-
provement to the buildings known as the Comp-
troller's office ; and —
WHEREAS, The plans prepared as aforesaid have
been submitted to the Comptroller of the Treasury,	Preamble
Commissioner of the Land Office, and President of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, and fully
approved by them ; and —
WHEREAS, The building known as the Comp-
troller's office is entirely too small to accommodate	Preamble
the increased business of the Comptroller of the
Treasury, the Commissioner of the Land Office, the
Board of Directors of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal Company, and the Insurance Commissioner,
all of whom conduct and transact the business of
their respective departments in said building; and —
WHEREAS, The limited space afforded by said
building for the transaction of the business of said	Preamble.
departments, necessarily leaves deeds representing
millions of property, and many other papers and
vouchers of great value to the State, in an unsafe
and exposed condition ; therefore —
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of	Appropriation.
Maryland, That the sum of twelve thousand dollars,
or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the
same is hereby appropriated to erect a fire-proof
addition to the building known as the Comptroller's
office, in the City of Annapolis.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That Levin Woolford,
William R. Hayward and Arthur P. Gorman be and	Authorized to erect
they are hereby authorized and empowered to erect