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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 436.

AN ACT to appropriate a sum of mouey to reimburse the

commissioners appointed to erect upon the battlefield of

Gettysburg, monuments to mark the positions occupied

by the Maryland commands that participated in said

battle, the amount expended by them in the prosecution

of the work assigned them over and above the amount

appropriated therefor.

WHEREAS, by the act of the General Assembly of Mary-

Preamble,

land, passed at the January session of eighteen hundred

and eighty-eight, chapter one huudred and eighteen, the

Governor was authorized to appoint commissioners to erect

upon the battlefield of Gettysburg suitable monuments to

mark the position occupied by the Maryland commands

that participated in said battle ; and

WHEREAS, the commissioners appointed under the pro-

Preamble

visions of said act, did have five monuments erected on said

battlefield and by a supplementary act passed at the Jan-

nary session of eighteen hundred and ninety, chapter four
hundred and thirteen, they were authorized to have one

additional monument erected and to make a full report of

their proceedings to the Governor and have such report

printed, all of which said commissioners have done in a

satisfactory manner, and

WHEREAS, in the prosecution and completion of said

Preamble.

work assigned them the said commissioners did incur an

expense of two hundred and seventy -one dollars and forty-

nine cents over and above the amount appropriated therefor

by said acts; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Appropria-

Maryland, That the sum of two hundred and seventy-one

tion.

dollars and forty-nine cents be, and the same is hereby

appropriated out of any money in the treasury not other-

wise appropriated to pay said commissioners the amount by

them expended over and above the amounts appropriated

and received by them, and the Comptroller of the Treasury

is hereby authorized to draw his warrant upon the treasurer

for the payment of said amount and which payment shall

be made to Theodore F. Lang, president and Frank Nolen,

secretary of said commissioners.

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

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8th, 1892.