JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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place in the new State building in the city of Annapolis, a
life-size bust and pedestal of Admiral Wintield Scott
Schley, and to authorize the appointment of a commission
for that purpose.
WHEREAS, Rear-Admiral (then Commodore) Winfield Scott

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Schley, of the United States Navy, a native and citizen of
Maryland, was in command of the squadron off Santiago,
which, on the third day of July, in the year eighteen hundred
and ninety-eight, destroyed the Spanish fleet; and
WHEREAS, It is the sense of the General Assembly of

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Maryland that the memory of the said Winfield Scott Schley
shall, in some appropriate way, be perpetuated, so that he may
be recognized by future generations as the hero of one of the
greatest naval battles in which this country ever engaged ; and
WHEREAS, Ernest W. Keyser, a Maryland sculptor, now

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residing in Washington, is engaged in making a life-size bust,
in bronze, of the said Admiral Schley;
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

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Maryland, That a commission, to consist of three persons, to
be named by the Governor, be appointed, whose duty it shall
be to purchase of the said Ernest W. Keyser a life-size bust
in bronze of Admiral Schley, together with a suitable pedestal,
at a price not exceeding three thousand dollars, which shall be
erected in some suitable place in the new State building in
the city of Annapolis, to be determined by said commission,
the style and workmanship of said bust and pedestal to be
approved by said commission.
SEO. 2. And be it further enacted. That the sum of three

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thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be
and the same is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the
treasury of the State not otherwise appropriated, to carry out
the purpose of this Act.
Approved March 20, 1902.

CHAPTER 32:
AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners of Somerset,
county to fund certain indebtedness of said County Com-
missioners and of the County School Commissioners of
Somerset county, by issuing bonds therefor, and to levy a
tax for a payment of the same.
WHEREAS, The County Commissioners of Somerset county

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are indebted unto sundry persons in certain sums of money,
the same having been levied in the year of 1896, and are

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