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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 146.

AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money to pay R. C. Mackall

for expenses incurred under an appointment made by

His Excellency Elihu E. Jackson, late Governor of Mary-

land, as a delegate to the Southern Emigration Conven-

tion, held at Asheville, North Carolina, in December

eighteen hundred and ninety.

WHEREAS, on invitation of a number of Governors of

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the Southern States, to the State of Maryland to send dele-

gates to the Southern Emigration Convention, held at Ashe-

ville, North Carolina, in December eighteen hundred and

ninety, His Excellency, Elihu E. Jackson, the then Governor

of Maryland did appoint such delegates ; and

WHEREAS, Richard C. Mackall of Cecil County, Mary-

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land, was one of the delegates so appointed by the governor,

and in respect to such appointment did attend said conven-

tion ; and

WHEREAS, the invitation so received from sister South-

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ern States after the adjournment of the General Assembly

of Maryland of eighteen hundred and ninety, and there-

fore no appropriation was made therefor ; and

WHEREAS, the said Richard C. Mackall did pay his ex-

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penses, amounting to forty dollars, from his own private

means ; and

WHEREAS, it is right and proper that the State of Mary- .

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land should reimburse such expenses so incurred, in behalf

of said State ; therefore

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the sum of forty dollars be, and the same

Re-im-
bursement.

is hereby appropriated to reimburse Richard C. Mackall for

expenses incurred as a delegate on the part of the State of

Maryland to the Southern Emigration Convention held at

Asheville, North Carolina, in December eighteen hundred

and ninety ; and the comptroller is hereby authorized and

directed to draw bis warrant on the treasurer, in favor of

said Richard C. Mackall, for the said sum of forty dollars ;

and the treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same out of

any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 17th, 1892.