326

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

required, and removing them from the different
hospital graveyards or other places of burial within
the enclosure of said cemetery, and that the bodies
of those in the army of General Lee who, fell, shall
be buried in" said cemetery in a separate part of
the cemetery from those of General McClellan's
army who fell.

Burial of the
dead.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That said agent be
empowered to assist in enclosing said cemetery
with a plain and substantial stone wall, laid in
lime morter, well coped and clamped, not less, than
four feet high, and at a cost not exceeding three
dollars per cubic perch, and that he also be author-
ized to act jointly with the agent of New York in
contracting with the Governors of the different
States, or their agents, for the removal and burial
of their dead within said enclosure; and he shall-
also be required to report annually to the Comp-
troller of the State the amount of his receipts and
expenditures, with all the statements, in detail,
connected with the burial of the dead and the com-
pletion of the cemetery.

Shall keep a
register.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the said agent
shall keep a register of receipts and expenditures,
and return the same under oath, with the certifi-
cate and seal of a Magistrate or Justice of the
Peace for Washington county, to the Comptroller
of the State, on or before the first day of January,
eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and if the receipts
exceed the expenditure, such excess or surplus
funds shall be applied to the purpose of improving
and ornamenting the grounds of Antietam Ceme-
tery.

To give bond.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the aforesaid
agent shall give good and sufficient bond to the
State, to the amount of four thousand dollars, and
he shall receive as compensation for his services,
in quarterly payments, a sum not exceeding five
hundred dollars.

A keeper to
be appointed.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That the Governor
be and he is hereby authorized to appoint a keeper
of the Antietam Cemetery, after it shall have been
completed, whose duty it shall be to protect the
property thereof, to make all needful and neces-
sary repairs, to plant, cultivate and preserve the
trees and shrubbery from injury, to prevent the