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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

designating the location of the said organizations in said battle,
as shall be recommended by said commission ; and of the sum
hereby appropriated, not more than five hundred dollars shall
be applied to the expenses of said commission, which the
Comptroller is hereby directed to draw his warrant for on the
Treasurer of the State, upon presentation of proper vouchers.
The said commission shall have full power to select a design
for said monument, and contract for its erection, which shall
be done or contracted for by bids in the usual form.

Effective.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 7, 1898.

CHAPTER 295.
AN ACT to pay to the School Commissioners of Garrett
County a sum of money out of the State School Tax.
WHEREAS, In view of the pressure of the present apportion-

Preamble.

ment specially upon Garrett county of the State school fund,
and her inability, without large increase of county taxation, to
keep open her schools for more than four or five months ; and
in view of the fact that mountain ridges so divide the popula-
tion of Garrett county, the largest county of the State in area,
as to render school facilities for all of the children more expen-
sive than in more central parts of the State ; and

WHEREAS, It has been unanimously recommended by the

Preamble.

State Board of Education that such sum of money should be
paid out of the State school fund to the Board of School Com-
missioners of Garrett county ; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Comptroller of the Treasury be and he is hereby

Appropria-
tion.

authorized and required to draw his warrant upon the treasurer
in favor of Garrett County School Board for the sum of four
thousand dollars per annum for two years, out of the proceeds
of the State school tax before making apportionment thereof;
provided, however, that no portion of said four thousand dol-
lars per annum shall be used for any other purpose than for
salaries and ordinary running expenses of said schools.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 7, 1898.