LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Local Laws of Maryland, title "Worcester County," sub-title
"Sheriff," be and is hereby repealed.

Repeal.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the first day of January, in the year nineteen hundred.
Approved April 9, 1898.

CHAPTER 422.
AN ACT authorizing the publication of one thousand addi-
tional copies of the Records and Histories of the Maryland
Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, who fought for the preserva-
tion of the Federal Union, 1861-1 865, and to provide for
the distribution thereof.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Effective.

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land, That the commission appointed under the provisions of
chapter 134 of the Public General Laws of Maryland, Acts of
1896, be and they are hereby authorized and directed to have
printed and published, at a cost not to exceed the present con-
tract price per volume, one thousand additional copies of the
Records and Histories of the Maryland Soldiers, Sailors and
Marines, who fought for the preservation of the Federal
Union, 1861-65.
SEC. 2. That the additional copies hereby authorized shall

Commission
given cer-
tain powers.

be distributed to the survivors of the civil war of creditable
record, or their descendants, and one copy thereof to each and
every member of the General Assembly of Maryland, and
said distribution shall be made by the State commissioners
appointed under the provisions of Act of 1896, laws of Mary-
land, chapter 134, with the utmost discretion, after careful
investigation of the merits of the applicants therefor.
SEC. 3. That the sum of four thousand dollars or as much

How
distributed.

thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any
money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry out
the provisions of this Act.

Appropri-
ated.

SEC. 4. That this Act shall take effect from the date of its
passage.
Approved April 9, 1898.

CHAPTER 423.
AN ACT to confirm and enlarge the powers and authority of
the " Wellington Republican Association of North Baltimore,
of Baltimore City," a corporation duly incorporated under
the provisions of the Act of 1868, Chapter 471.

Effective.