LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

posed amendment, as directed by the said 14th Article of the
Constitution.
Approved April 9, 1808.

CHAPTER 194.
AN ACT for the relief of " The Johns Hopkins University,"
and to appropriate a sum of money therefor.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to the General Assembly,
that by reason of the failure of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company to pay dividends on the preferred stock of said

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company, whereby the Johns Hopkins University has had its
income so decreased as to seriously cripple its work as an edu-
cational institution, and said Johns Hopkins University has
asked this General Assembly to aid it in tiding over the
present emergency with an appropriation, in the hope that in
the near future its regular income may be restored, and it will
be enabled to continue its work of education upon its own
resources without further aid from the State ; and
WHEREAS, the General Assembly holding in view the gen-
erous purposes of that distinguished philanthropist, who gave
the accumulated wealth of a long and busy life to the found-

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ing and maintenance of this now celebrated and renowned
seat of learning ; and believing it would be a public calamity
to have it embarrassed at this stage of its growth, feels in duty
bound to stretch out the helping hand of the State by
appropriating a sum of money in aid of said university ;
therefore,
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
land, That there is hereby appropriated to the Johns Hopkins

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University out of any money in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated the sum of fifty thousand dollars for the year
eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and fifty thousand dollars
for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That the Treasurer, on the war-

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tion.

rant of the Comptroller be and he is hereby authorized and
directed to pay to the Trustees of the Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity, the sum of money hereinbefore appropriated.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 7, 1898.

Direction
given.

Effective.