300 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 144

91. All armories owned by the State of Maryland, and
all buildings occupied, leased or rented by or in behalf of the
State for the purpose of organizing, training and equipping
such State military forces as may now or hereafter be author-
ized by law, shall be under the management and control of the
State Armory Commission hereby created. Said Commission
shall consist of the Governor, the Adjutant General and the
Comptroller. Said Commission shall be vested with the man-
agement, care, control and maintenance of the armories and
other buildings aforesaid, together with all power and author-
ity necessary or desirable for such purposes, and with the right
to make and enforce all reasonable rules and regulations in
connection therewith.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this
Act shall be construed to interfere with or abrogate the duties
or powers of building commissions and committees created for
the purpose of constructing and equipping armories author-
ized by the laws of the State. Any monies in the hands of or
due to the Board of Trustees of the Fifth Regiment Armory,
shall be paid to the State Armory Commission.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted,, That all Acts and parts
of Acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect on and after June 1, 1918.

Approved April 10th, 1918.

CHAPTER 144.

AN ACT to legalize Volume 4 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land, edited by George P. Bagby, and make it, in connection
with Volumes 1, 2 and 3 of said Code, Evidence of the Law.
WHEREAS, the General Assembly at its sessions of 1912 and
1914 legalized and made evidence of the Law Volumes 1, 2 and
3 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, edited by George P.
Bagby, which completed the codification of the Public General
Laws of the State down to and inclusive of the Acts of 1914;
and

WHEREAS, Volume 4 of the Annotated Code of Maryland now
in course of preparation, will include the Public General Acts
of 1916, 1917 and 1918, and thus complete to the date of its