ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Chapter 16

AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money to pay
Clinton P. Paine and Robert Ober for money
advanced for the expenses of the Militia of
the State at the Constitutional Centennial
Celebration.

WHEREAS, at the Constitutional Centennial
Celebration in the city of Philadelphia, in Sep-

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tember, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the
thirteen original states which ratified the Con-
stitution of the United States were invited to
take part and be represented in the military dis-
play ; and the legislatures of the said states
made provision to be so represented, except
Maryland, of which state the legislature was
not in session in time to make such provision,
and whereas Clinton P. Paine and Robert Ober,
on their own behalf and on behalf of W. J. H.
Watters, Harry Parr, John K. Shaw, Chauncey
Brooks, E. Law Rogers, A. P. Gorman, Henry
Lloyd, E. E. Jackson, John Gill, D. Fitzgerald,
C. D. Fisher, O. Reeder, William H. Grafflin,
J. H. Cottman, A. T. Leftwich, Fred Shriver,
George F. Sloan, J. McKenny White, John E.
Hurst, James Sloan, Jr., and James Hodges
advanced for the use of the militia of the state
the sum of five thousand dollars, which was
expended in the expenses of the state militia
which represented Maryland at the said celebra-
tion, and which sum it is proper should be re-
paid by the state ; therefore
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland. That the comptroller of

Preamble.

the state be and he is hereby authorized and
directed to draw his warrant upon the treasurer
in favor of Clinton P. Paine and Robert Ober
for the sum of five thousand dollars, money
advanced by them, and through them, for the
expenses of the state militia at the Constitu-
tional Centennial Celebration.

Comptroller
to draw war-
rant.

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

Approved February 15, 1888.

Effective.