LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 295.

AN ACT to add a new article to the Code of Public General
Laws of the State of Maryland, under the title of "Immi-
gration," establishing a Bureau of Immigration in and for
the State of Maryland.

537

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new article be and the same is hereby added to
the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, under the title
of " Immigration," which shall be as follows :

New article.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, There is hereby established
within and for the State of Maryland, a Bureau of Immigra-
tion to encourage immigration to this State.

Bureau of
immigration.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, There shall be appointed
by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate, once in every two years, a board of immigration com-
missioners, composed of three members, one of whom shall
be president of the board, and one of whom shall be State
Superintendent of Immigration, and shall be so designated in
his appointment; the said commissioners shall be appointed
for a term of two years, and until their successors are duly
qualified; the State superintendent shall receive a salary of
two thousand dollars per annum, payable quarterly, upon the
warrant of the Comptroller, and the other two commissioners
shall serve without compensation, except for their actual ex-
penses in attending the meetings of the board.

Board of
immigration.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That the State Superinten-
dent of Immigration shall be a man of good character and
capacity, a citizen of the State of Maryland, and shall give
bond to the State of Maryland in the sum of ten thousand
dollars, with sufficient sureties, to be approved by the Gover-
nor, conditioned for the faithful and efficient discharge of the
duties of his office.

Superintend-
ent of immi-
gration.

SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, That the Board of Immigra-
tion Commissioners shall procure a good and sufficient office
in the city of Baltimore, well located for the purpose, for
which the Bureau of Immigration is established, which shall
be kept open daily during the year from nine o'clock A. M. to
five o'clock P. M., in which said office shall be kept con-
veniently, for ready reference, maps, pamphlets and other
statistics, fully and clearly descriptive of the geographical
position of each county of the State, its agricultural and other

Office of
board.