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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 212.

AN ACT to provide for the appointment of a commission

and for the collection, arrangement, and display, of the

products of the State of Maryland at the World's Colum-

bian Exposition of 1893, and to make an appropriation

therefor.

WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States has pro-

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vided, by an act approved April 25th, 1890, for celebrating

the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America

by Christopher Columbus, by holding an international exhi-

bition of arts, industries, manufactures, and the products of

the soil, mine and sea, in the city of Chicago, in the State

of Illinois, in the year 1893, and

WHEREAS, It is of great importance that the natural

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resources, industrial development, and general progress of

the State of Maryland should be fully and creditably dis-

played to the world at said Exposition, therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Managers

Maryland, That for the purpose of exhibiting the resources,

of World's
Fair

products and general development of the State of Maryland

at the Worlds Columbian Exposition of 1893, a commissioner

is hereby constituted, to be designated "The Board of

World's Fair Managers of Maryland," which shall consist

of eleven residents of the State of Maryland, to be organized

and continue its duties as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 2. The Governor of the State in addition to the

Governor
a member,

eleven members heretofore provided for, shall be ex-officio a

member of the Board of World's Fair Managers for the State

of Maryland.

SEC. 3. The members of said board shall be nominated

and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate

Appoint-

appointed by the Governor as soon as possible after the pas-

ment of
board,

sage of this act and shall meet at such times as the Governor

may appoint, and organize by the election of a president,

vice-president and secretary and treasurer. The treasurer

of said board shall give bond to the State in a sum to

Bond.

be designated by the Governor with a surety to be approved

by him for the proper performance of the duties of treasurer,

the cost of said bond to be paid out of the appropriation

hereinafter provided for ; five members of said board shall

constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The

Power.

board shall have power to make rules and regulations for its

own government, provided, such rules and regulations shall

not conflict with the regulations adopted under the act of