ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 338.

AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners of

Queen Anne's county to levy a sum of money as a

pension for Solomon Tate, of said county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the county commissioners of Queen

Anne's county be and they are hereby authorized, in

Levy for pen-
sion.

their discretion, to levy upon the assessable property

of said county, annually, as a pension for Solomon Tate,

of said county.

Approved April 8, 1884.

Chapter 339.

AN ACT to cede the United State of America a plat

of ground in the State House Circle at Annapolis,

Maryland, for the purpose of erecting thereupon a

monument in memory of Baron DeKalb.

WHEREAS the Congress of the United States, by

an act approved February the nineteenth, eighteen

hundred and eighty-three, resolved that a monument

be erected to the memory of the late Major General,

the Baron DeKalb, in the city of Annapolis, and the

said act empowers the secretary of state of the United

States to have the management and control of the

erection of the said monument; and whereas the secre-

tary of state of the United States has selected a spot in

Preamble.

the grounds attached to St. John's College, in the city

of Annapolis, upon which to erect the said monument,

the General Assembly of Maryland hereby expresses

its wish that the said monument be erected in the

grounds attached to the State House, and known as

the State House Circle, in the city of Annapolis, and

the secretary of the state of the United States having

decided to require the cession to the United States of

America of a plat of ground twenty-four feet square,

therefore —