LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIBE, GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 342.

AN ACT to appropriate three thousand dollars for the relief
of the Provident Hospital and Free Dispensary of Balti-
more City.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the sum of one thousand tive hundred dollars for
the fiscal year ending on the 30th day of September, 1897, and
the like sum of one thousand tive hundred dollars for the fiscal
year ending on the 30th day of September, 1898, be appro-
priated for the relief of the Provident Hospital and Free Dis-
pensary of Baltimore City.

Appropria-

tion

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 4, 1896.

CHAPTER 343.

AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money for the purpose oi
assisting the Naval Veteran Association of Maryland in the
erection of a suitable monument or tablet in the United
States National Cemetery at London Park, to the memory
of the sailors of Maryland who lost their lives in defending
the Union.

Effective.

WHEREAS, It has been the custom in a vast majority of the
States to erect monuments in memory of their gallant heroes
who lost their lives in the defense of the Union; and

Preamble.

WHEREAS, The State of Maryland has appropriated various
sums for the purpose of erecting monuments to the Maryland
contingent of the army in the conflicts of the late war; and

Preamble.

WHEREAS, There have been many heroic deeds done and
many lives lost in defending the cause of the Union, upon the
seas as well as the land, and the sailors of Maryland have apply
furnished their proportion of the gallant deeds recorded in his
tory; and

Preamble.

WHEREAS, The erection of a naval monument in the State
of Maryland would be a long deferred recognition by this
State of the services of those who went down to the sea in
ships in defense of their country; therefore,

Preamble.