EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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Public Works of Maryland to collect the insurance upon
State tobacco warehouses Nos. 1 and 2 and place the same
to the credit of the tobacco warehouse fund, and to either
re-build a modern warehouse on the present site of tobacco
warehouses Nos. 1 and 2 and the property owned by the
State adjacent thereto, or to sell said property or lease the
same for such sum as they think right, and build a tobacco
warehouse in some locality of Baltimore city selected by
said Board of Public Works," be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted so that Section 2 shall read as
follows :
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the members of
the Board of Public Works, together with Henry Lants,

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Repeal and
re-enact.

William B. Clagett and Joshua S. Rawlings, Adrian Posey
and John H. Drury, shall be and they are hereby constituted
the State tobacco warehouse building commission, without
compensation, for the purpose of re-building, enlarging and
fully equipping warehouses Nos. 3, 4 and 5, and if sufficient
amount remain in the tobacco fund for the purchasing a
suitable site on the water front in the city of Baltimore, and
erecting thereon a tobacco warehouse with a capacity of at
least eight thousand (8,000) hogsheads, provided the site
shall be west of Market space and north of Hughes avenue;
and in case the said commissioners shall be unable to obtain
a suitable site within the said, bounds they shall cause to be
re-built on the site of houses A and B of No. 3 warehouse a
modern and fully equipped house for the inspection and
storage of tobacco.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Governor of

State tobacco
warehouse
building
commission.

the State shall be president of said commission, and all
vacancies in said commission, whether from death, resigna-
tion, refusal to act or otherwise, shall be filled by the Board
of Public Works.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That as soon after the
passage of this Act as possible said commission shall organ-

Governor to be
president of
commission.

ize and select a secretary and proceed to purchase or lease a
convenient and suitable site or lot of ground having water
front in the city of Baltimore, and shall proceed to procure
plans and specifications for said warehouse; and as soon as
said plans and specifications for said warehouse are deter-
mined upon, the said commission shall invite sealed propo-
sals by advertisements for a reasonable time in two of the

Commission to
organize and
purchase a
site and lot
of ground,
etc.