ART. 65] FLAGS OF MARYLAND. REGIMENTS. 1541

issue, or sell any fac-simile or imitation of the same, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction
thereof in any court having criminal jurisdiction in the State of
Maryland, or before any justice of the peace of the State of
Maryland in the county or city where the offense has been
committed, be punished by imprisonment in the county or city
jail for not less than six months nor more than one year, or by
a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars,
or by both fine and imprisonment.

Battle-FIags of Maryland Regiments During the Civil War.

1900, ch 485, sec. 1.

56. The governor is 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 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 conspicu-
ous 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
organizations 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. sec. 2.

57. It shall be the duty of the commission, after the com-
pletion 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,
requesting the delivery of said battle-flags to the State for safe
keeping and preservation as long as the commonwealth exists.

Ibid. sec. 3.

58. 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 56.