56 GOVERNOR. [ART. 41

Battle Flags of Maryland Regiments During the Civil War.

1900, ch. 485.

28. The Governor is hereby authorized and directed to appoint
a commission composed of four citizens of Maryland who shall
have served with honor and credit, either in the army or navy,
during the late civil war, 1861-65—two of said commission to be
appointed, to be selected from those who fought with distinction
on behalf of the Union, and two to be selected from those who
fought with distinction on behalf of the South—whose duty it
shall be to erect in the State library, or other suitable and con-
spicuous room at the State capital, suitable cases, to be composed
of metal and plate-glass, of sufficient capacity to receive the
various battle-flags, with their staff, carried by Maryland organi-
zations of infantry, cavalry and artillery during said civil war, and
to be so arranged that proper metal cards, with letters not less
than one inch in height, can be placed to show the number of the
battalion, regiment or battery to whom said battle-flags belonged,
as well as inscriptions on streamers appended to the standards,
showing the various engagements in which the flag was carried.

Ibid

29. It shall be the duty of the commission, after the comple-
tion of said cases and their approval by the Governor, to apply
to the organizations who have the custody of the said Maryland
battle-flags in the name and in behalf of the State of Maryland,
requesting the delivery of said battle-flags to the State of Mary-
land for safe keeping and preservation as long as the common-
wealth exists.

Ibid

30. The said flags when so delivered to the commission shall
be carefully taken down, wrapped, packed and transported to the
capital of the State, thence unpacked, carefully cleaned, as far
as practicable, and erected in said cases, properly inscribed, etc.,
as directed in section 28.

Ibid.

31. The sum of fifteen hundred dollars, or so much thereof
as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money
in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under