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WHEREAS, The 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 provisions of said
Act and of subsequent Acts, and it is proper that the publi-
cation of said Archives should be continued with diligence and
care under the supervision of said society ; therefore
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Preamble.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the sum of two thousand dollars for each
year, for the period of two years from this date, be and the
same is hereby appropriated, and shall be paid to the said
Maryland Historical Society out of any funds in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated, which sum shall be paid, one
thousand dollars on the first day of June and December, of the
years eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred
and ninety-nine.
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Appropria-
tion.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Archives of Maryland,
published by the said society with the funds herein provided,
shall as provided by the Act of eighteen hundred and eighty-
two, chapter one hundred and thirty-eight, be the property of
the State, provided that said society may purchase such vol-
umes as it wishes for its members and exchanges at the cost
of paper, press-work 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 ; and 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 is hereby authorized, without being
required to pay therefor, to send a copy of each of the vol-
umes that have been or may be published to the respective
State Librarians of the several States ofthe Union, and also to
each of the circuit courts of the several counties of the
State, to the Court of Appeals, the Land Office, the Library
Company of the Baltimore Bar, and such Library or Histori-
cal association as may be approved by the Maryland Histori-
cal Society, and said society shall make report to the next
General Assembly of the progress of the work, and of all
receipts and disbursements under this Act.
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Archlres of
Maryland to
be pub-
lished.
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SEC. 3. A,nd be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved March 14, 1898.
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