ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Chapter. 118.

AN ACT to provide for the erection of memorial
tablets or monuments to suitably mark the
position occupied by the various Maryland
military organizations serving with the army
of the Potomac on the battle-field of Gettys-
burg in the battle of Gettysburg, and to make
a suitable appropriation therefor.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the governor shall, within

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thirty days after the passage of this act, appoint
five discreet citizens of the State of Maryland as
commissioners of the state to carry out the pro-
visions of this act, as hereinafter provided, and
who shall serve without pay, and whose duty it
shall be to select and decide upon the design and
material for tablets or monuments to mark the
position of each Maryland command serving

Appoint com-
missioners.

with the army of the Potomac upon the battle-
field of Gettysburg, viz.: The first regiment of
Eastern Shore infantry; the first regiment of
Potomac Home Brigade, infantry ; the third
regiment of Maryland infantry ; the first regi-
ment of Maryland cavalry ; and Ridgley's Bat-
tery "A" first Maryland artillery, United States
volunteers.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said com-

What to mark.

missioners shall call to their aid and co-operate
with, in selecting the location for said tablets or
monuments, three persons representing the sur-
vivors of each of said regiments and battery,
and who shall have served with the respective
regiments or battery they may severally repre-
sent in the said battle of Gettysburg, and after
said commissioners, aided by said representatives

What to call
to their aid.

of the survivors of said respective commands,
shall have selected proper sites on said battle-
fields for the erection of said tablets or monu-
ments, they shall proceed without del'ay to have
the same erected, and the said commissioners
shall be fully authorized by this act to make all
necessary contracts for and on behalf of the
State of Maryland to carry out the objects of
this act, provided they shall not make any ex-
penditure or incur any liability beyond the

Select proper
sites.