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64 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 6
amount of money, about $7,200 up to date, for the
armory, which should be promptly refunded by the
State.
Under the Statute the armory is placed in charge of
"The Board of Trustees of the 5th Regiment Armory,"
and that board is responsible for its safety. If the
board is to be held responsible for the armory it should
have the means in its own hands to maintain the
armory, as heretofore the old 5th Regiment Armory
was cared for out of the militia fund, which is not
under the control of the board of trustees. In short,
at present the board is saddled with a responsibility
without the power to discharge its obligations. I
would accordingly suggest that in future an appropria-
tion sufficiently large to keep the armory in repair be
made directly to the board of trustees, which amount
should probably be about $2,000.00 per year.
NEW COURT OF APPEALS BUILDING.
This building is under the direction of a special com-
mission created by the General Assembly of 1900.
The commission issued invitations to various archi-
tects to submit plans in competition for said building.
The design submitted by Messrs. Baldwin & Penning-
ton Avas selected from over thirty designs submitted by
various architects throughout the country.
Proposals for the construction of the buildings were
invited by advertisement, resulting in the contract for
the construction of the building being awarded to
Messrs. Henry Smith & Sons, of Baltimore, on July
3d, 1901.
Progress on its early construction was somewhat de-
layed on account of strikes, bad weather and the diffi-
culty of obtaining granite for the base of the building.
The corner stone was laid with Masonic ceremonies on
March 20th, 1902, and the building was practically
completed in the early fall of 1903, in time for the
October term of the Court of Appeals.
The building shows for itself. It is of a handsome,
simple classic design, the exterior being constructed of
Maryland granite base, brick superstructure, with
limestone trimmings. The building has been con-
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