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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

nished by the building committee the contract was awarded to

Morrow and Owen at forty-seven thousand five hundred and sixty-

Preamble.

five dollars, but owing largely to labor strikes and troubles over

which the contractors had no control during the time of con-

struction, the building cost more than the contract price as shown

by a statement filed with the building committee; and

WHEREAS, it appears that said annex has been well and sub-

stantially built and represents to the State the full value of all

Preamble.

the money expended in its construction, and it is right and proper

that said claimants, who furnished labor and material, not being

able to protect themselves by placing liens on the State's property,

should not be prejudiced in the payment of their claims by the

inability of the said contractors to pay for said building out of

the contract price in accordance with their bid;

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the comptroller of the treasury be and he is hereby directed

to issue his warrant on the treasurer of this State payable to the

order of the said building committee for the sum of ($12,253.41)

To pay

twelve thousand two hundred and fifty-three dollars and forty-

one cents, being the amount required in addition to the unex-

pended balance still in the hands of the said committee, to pay

the claims hereinafter referred to, and that the said building

committee is hereby directed to pay to the firm of Bartlett, Hay-

ward and company the sum of ($1,500,) one thousand five hun-

dred dollars, and to pay to G. W. Addison, gas fitting, fifty dol-

lars; W. B. Turner and Sou, stairs, ninety-three dollars; An-

napolis, Washington and Baltimore railroad company, freight,

twenty-seven dollars and sixty-three cents; Maryland steamboat

company, freight, forty dollars and four cents; Martin Kennedy,

lime, forty-four dollars; Garthe Loenstein, slating, six hundred

and thirty-five dollars; Burns, Eussell and company, brick, one-

hundred and eighty- three dollars and sixty-eight cents; Gill and

McMahon, granite, three hundred dollars; Charles A. Hopkins,

hauling, two hundred and thirty-three dollars and seventy-eight,

cents; George Jewell, bricklaying, one thousand eight hundred

and fifty dollars; South Baltimore brick and tile company, brick,

two thousand and seventy-five dollars; George N. Potee, brick,.

one thousand three hundred and eighty dollars; D. J. Sanders,.

sand, &c., four hundred dollars; Heise Bruns and company, mill

To issue

work, one thousand four hundred and fifteen dollars and twenty-

warrants.

six cents; E. L. Tunis and company, lumber, &c., four thousand.

eight hundred and thirteen dollars and seventy-seven cents; Fire

proofing building company, of Baltimore, one thousand seven.

hundred and fifty-three dollars; C. J. Stewart and Son, hardware,

one hundred and fifty-eight dollars and forty-two cents; James

Bates, hardware, eighty- two dollars and forty-seven cents; Hutch-

inson Bros., hardware, forty-three dollars and forty-two cents ;