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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

of said act did provide to have said monument erected and have

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made a report of their proceedings and work to the governor,

which report contains valuable historical information which it is

desirable to perpetuate in print; and

WHEREAS, the cavalry detachment of the Purnell legion, a

Maryland organization, also participated in said battle, but by in-

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advertence was omitted from the provisions of said act, and it

being eminently proper that its position on said battlefield should

also be suitable marked; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the commissioners heretofore appointed under the provisions
of said act of eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, chapter one

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hundred and eighteen, be and they are hereby authorized and

ment

directed to proceed to have erected upon the Gettysburg battle-

field, a suitable memorial tablet or monument to mark the position

occupied by the said cavalry detachment of the Purnell legion in

the said battle, and that they proceed in the same manner and

with the same authority prescribed in the said act of eighteen

hundred and eighty-eight, chapter one hundred and eighteen to

which this is a supplement.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners when

they shall have completed their labors under this supplementary

Report

act shall make a full report thereof to the governor, and appro-
priately incorporate the same with the report heretofore submitted,

and that said commissioners be and they are hereby authorized

to expend not more than five hundred dollars of the amount here-

inafter appropriated, in having said report printed, one hundred

copies of which shall be delivered to the State librarian for dis-

position as the governor may direct, and the balance shall be dis-

tributed by said commissioners.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the sum of sixteen hundred

dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be. and the same

is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not other-

wise appropriated, to pay the cost of said additional monument,

and the expenses necessarily incurred in the selection of the site

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therefor and the erection thereof, and the printing of said report,

ation.

and when said tablet or monument shall be completed and properly

erected and said report shall be printed and ready for delivery.

the said commissioners, or majority of them, shall certify the

same to the comptroller of the treasury who shall upon proper

vouchers draw his warrant upon the treasurer of the State for the

amount or amounts required to pay for said monument and ex-

penses and said printing not exceeding in all the said sum of six-

teen hundred dollars.

Effective.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from the

date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1890.