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b. For the purpose of meeting expenses and disbursements
incident to the organization, training, equipment, arming,
ammunitioning and maintaining of the Maryland State Guard.

c. For the purpose of providing for the guarding, trans-
portation, lodging, feeding, clothing and medical and other care
and attention of such prisoners as may be required to work on
the .public roads and bridges or on any other public works or
property.

d. For the purpose of promoting or aiding in any way
whatsoever in the conservation, production or regulation of
agricultural, food or dairy products or supplies, with authority
to make such payments to or in connection with such existing
boards, commissions or other agencies or instrumentalities,
State or National, or otherwise, as may be expedient.

e. For any and all such other purposes not herein specifi-
cally enumerated as may be deemed necessary and proper in the
discretion of the said Executive Committee, by and with the
sanction and approval of the Governor, for the defense of the
State, the safety and health of its people and the protection of
property, and to aid the State or the United States in the pres-
ent war; and also for the purpose of carrying into effect the
provisions of any Act or Acts of Assembly, which are not
herein specifically mentioned, but which may be intended or
may be resorted to for the defense of the State, or the safe-
guarding of its people and property, or otherwise aiding the
State or the United States, in the present war, whether such
Act or Acts of Assembly are now existing or may hereafter
be passed.

f. The purposes above mentioned shall be liberally con-
strued, and any and all expenditures which can fairly be said
to be desirable or appropriate to effectuate any of them, and
to carry out the objects of this Act, are authorized to be made
out of the loan hereby provided for.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the said Executive
Committee of the Maryland Council of Defense, by and with
the approval and sanction of the Governor, shall, from time to
time, investigate and determine (the purposes aforesaid for
which, or for some or any of which, the proceeds of the loan
hereby authorized, or any part or parts thereof, shall be ex-
pended, and may, from time to time, apportion said moneys
among said purposes in such amounts as they deem proper. No
moneys shall be expended from the proceeds of this loan, or any
part or parts thereof, for any of the purposes authorized by