FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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and in compliance with section three hundred and fifty -five

of the revised statutes of the United States, consent to pur-

United

chase is hereby given, and exclusive jurisdiction ceded to

States to
have Juris-

the United States, over and with respect to all the lands at

diction
over all

or near the battlefield of Antietam in this State, which are

lands at

now or may at any time hereafter, be acquired by the United

battlefield
of

States, for the purpose, as specified in the act of Congress,

Antietam.

approved August 30th, 1890, of locating, marking and pre-

serving the lines and positions of the armies on said battle-

fields, and erecting, marking tablets or monuments, and

also of laying out roads and approaches, planting trees or

shrubbery, fencing and otherwise occupying and embellish-

ing the said battlefield and its vicinity ; said jurisdiction to

continue so long as the said lands are held and occupied by

the United States for public purposes, reserving, however,

to this State, a concurrent jurisdiction for the execution upon

said lands or in the buildings erected thereon, of all process,

civil or criminal, lawfully issued by the courts of the State

and not incompatible with this cession ; provided that an

accurate map or place of said lands, when laid out, shall be

filed in the proper office of record of the county in which

said lands are situated.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

Effective

and after its passage.

Approved March 22nd, 1892.

CHAPTER 175.

AN ACT to regulate the county printing and publishing in

Baltimore County, and to provide for having the same

done by contract.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the County Commissioners of Baltimore

Commis-

County may before making their annual levy in each and

sioners of

every year, contract for the printing and publishing for Balti-

Baltimore
County-

more County, of the annual statement, notices of Registra-

power to
contract for

tion and elections and annual tax levy and tax sales,

printing.

Ln so many newspapers respectively as the same are now

required by law to be published and for such other printing

as is or may be required to be done for said county for the

period of one year from the date of making such contract ;

and such contract shall be at the lowest prices obtainable

for the work to be done.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall be con-

strued to relate to and to include the cost of printing and