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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 232.

AN ACT to authorize the construction and main-

tenance of a line of telegraph from the House of

Correction, at Jessup's Station, in Anne Arundel

county, to the Police Headquarters, in Baltimore

city ; and from the State Penitentiary to the Police

Headquarters, in Baltimore city.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the Board of Public.Works, for

purposes of public safety and the proper discipline

Board of Pub-

of the State institutions hereinafter named, be and

lic Works

they are hereby authorized, empowered and directed

authorized to

to have constructed and properly maintained a line

con struct,
telegraph line

of telegraph between the House of Correction, at
Jessup's Station, in Anne Arundel county, and the

Police Headquarters, in Baltimore city ; also, be-

tween the State Penitentiary and the Police Head-

quarters, in Baltimore city.

Appropria-

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the sum of forty-

tion lor con-

seven hundred dollars be and the same is hereby

structions.

appropriated for constructing and equipping the

lines of telegraph referred to in the preceding sec-
tion ; which said sum shall be applied in the follow-

ing proportions : Thirty-six hundred dollars thereof

Applied to

shall be applied to the construction of a line of tele-

the construc-

graph from the said House of Correction to the

tion

Police Headquarters, in Baltimore city ; two hun-

dred dollars thereof shall be applied to the construc-

tion of a line of telegraph from the Maryland

Penitentiary to said Police Headquarters, in Balti-

more city; one hundred dollars thereof shall be

applied to the purchase of a battery for said lines ;

eight hundred dollars thereof shall be applied to the

purchase of the necessary instruments for said lines

of telegraph, and for the purchase of four dials to be

used in connection with said lines, and for the pur-

pose of purchasing tables and local fixtures for the

offices of said lines, and of providing inside wire.

Paid by
Treasurer

The said respective sums of money shall be paid by
the Treasurer upon the warrant of the Comptroller,

upon warrant

for the several purposes hereinbefore specifically