ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 837

used in the same materials purchased by it from, the South
Cumberland Planing Mill Company, in the amount of
Four Hundred Fourteen Dollars and Twenty-six Cents
($414. 26), the Wilson Hardware Company, in the amount
of Two Hundred Twelve Dollars and Three Cents
($212. 03), Merwin McKaig, in the amount of One Hun-
dred Eight Dollars and Nine Cents ($108. 09), the Cum-
berland Cement and Supply Company, in the amount of
One Thousand One Dollar and Twenty-one Cents ($1, -
001. 21), " the Grant Lumber and Supply Company, In the
amount of Twenty-two Hundred Ninety-six Dollars and
Twenty-six Cents ($2, 296. 26), the Motor Transfer Com-
pany, in the amount of Two Hundred Ninety-nine Dollars
and Fifty Cents ($299. 50), and from Brinker Brothers,
in the amount of Nine Hundred Dollars ($900. 00), and

WHEREAS, Said Baltimore Fireproofing Company was
adjudged a bankrupt in the District Court of the United
States for the District of Maryland in the early part of
the year 1929 before it paid any part of its said indebted-
ness to its said creditors and it was greatly insolvent at
the time of its said adjudication in bankruptcy and said
creditors received no payment on. account of their said bills
from the Trustee in Bankruptcy, and

WHEREAS, The said creditors of said bankrupt company
for various and technical reasons, the principal one being
that the legal title to the real estate upon which the build-
ing was erected was vested in the Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Cumberland, a municipal corporation, could not suc-
cessfully file and maintain Mechanics' Liens against said
property for the protection of their respective claims, and

WHEREAS, Because of the unpaid bills of the above named
creditors, the said the Board of Governors of the Me-
morial Hospital of Cumberland withheld the final payment
due the George A. Fuller Company, Contractor, amount-
ing to approximately Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25, -
000. 00), which became due after the completion of said
building, and refused to pay the same unless the contractor
would voluntarily pay all of said creditors' unpaid bills,
and

WHEREAS, Thereafter said contractor entered suit
against said the Board of Governors of the Memorial Hos-
pital of Cumberland to enforce the collection of said final
payment, but before the trial of the same, said case was
compromised and settled by the contractor accepting ap-