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CHAP. 256
Preamble.
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State as therein provided, on the condition that said society
shall safely keep, properly arrange and catalogue the same,
and shall edit and publish, under its supervision, such of
the same as were of historical importance; and
WHEREAS, Said society, out of its own means, has con-
structed an expensive vault for the safe keeping of said
records, and has, on its part, complied with all the pro-
visions of said Act and subsequent Acts, and it is proper
that the publication of said archives should be continued
with diligence and care under the supervision of said society ;
and
WHEREAS, There exists several and considerable portions
of the said records, archives and ancient documents, whereof
there is no copy whatsoever in the possession or under the
control of the State or any officer or agent thereof, as set
forth in the report made by said society to this General
Assembly; which said missing portions the said society has
ascertained to exist in the Public Record Office in London ;
and it is desirable, in order to have the said archives and
ancient documents of the State made complete by the tran-
scribing and copying thereof, that the same may be published
in their due sequence; therefore,
SECTION' 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the sum of two thousand dollars for each year
for the period of two years from this date be and the same
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Sum of money
appropriated
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. is hereby appropriated and shall be paid to the said Mary-
land Historical Society out of any funds in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated, which sum shall be paid, one thou-
sand dollars on the first day of June and December of the
years 1906 and 1907.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the archives of Maryland
published by said society with the funds herein provided
shall, as provided by the Act of 1882, Chapter 138, be the
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Archives
property of
the State.
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property of the State; provided, that said society may
purchase such volumes as it wishes for its members and
exchanges at the cost of paper, presswork and binding, and
shall be authorized to sell others at cost; the proceeds of all
sales to be added to the publication fund and used only
therefor; provided further, that ten copies of each volume of
the archives published by said Maryland Historical Society
shall be bound in cloth and deposited in the State library
for the use thereof; and that the said society be and it is
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