WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIBE, GOVEENOE. 607

	CHAPTER 420.
	AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and City Council
	of Baltimore to make an appropriation for erect-
	ing a monument to the memory of Colonel George
	Armistead, U. S. Army, for his gallant defence of
	Fort McHenry, on the thirteenth and fourteenth
	of September, eighteen hundred and fourteen.
	WHEREAS by a resolution passed by the -Mayor
	and City Council of Baltimore, approved March
	fourth, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, reciting
	the high sense entertained by that body of the emi-
	nent military services rendered by Colonel George
	Armistead, U. S. Army, in his gallant defence of
	Fort McHenry, near that city, during its bombard-
	ment by the British fleet, on the thirteenth and
	fourteenth of September, eighteen hundred and	Preamble.
	fourteen. There was erected a monument to his
	memory in the city of Baltimore, where it stood,
	under the care and keeping of the municipal author-
	ities of said city, for thirty-five years, when it was
	lost in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three,
	during certain improvements that were made by the
	city authorities of the grounds within which it
	stood; and,
	WHEREAS a resolution was adopted by the two
	branches of the City Council of Baltimore, without
	a dissenting vote, on the third and fourth of Febru-
	ary, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, making an
	appropriation for erecting a new monument to the memory of Colonel Armistead, in lieu of the one
	that was lost, which resolution was afterwards vetoed
	by the mayor of said city on the twentieth of Feb-
	ruary, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, alleging	Preamble.
	in his message as a reason for such veto, upon the
	opinion of the city solicitor, a want of power on the
	part of the city council, under the city charter, to
	make such an appropriation in the absence of legis-
	lative authority therefor, and which resolution was
	nevertheless, passed over the mayor's veto in the
	first branch, but defeated in the second branch.