400 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the County Commis-
sioners of Harford County be and they are hereby authorized
and required to levy upon the assessable property of said County
as other County charges are levied, a sum or sums not exceed-
ing $2,400, sufficient to pay for said files, cases, equipment and
fixtures and for said recording, indexing, filing and classifica-
tion, unless the receipts of said register's office from fees for
services rendered therein shall prove sufficient to pay for said
steel furnishings, recording and indexing, after all the office
expenses and salaries of said Register and his deputies shall be
paid, when said furnishings, recording and indexing shall be
paid out of the fees, if any, so remaining.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 2nd, 1914.

CHAPTER 270.

AN ACT to provide for the appointment of twenty-five Commis-
sioners to represent the State of Maryland at the Panama-
Pacific International Exposition, and to provide an appropria-
tion of $75,000 for the use of said Commissioners to enable
them to have the State of Maryland suitably represented at
the said Panama-Pacific International Exposition in the year
1915.

WHEREAS, The State of Maryland and the Citv of Baltimore
are vitally interested in securing their share of the increase of
trade which will accrue from the building and opening of the
Panama Canal, inasmuch as Baltimore City is one of the largest
and most important seaport cities on the Atlantic Coast; and

WHEREAS, Many foreign countries and most of the States of
the United States have signified their intention of being repre-
sented and making exhibits at the Panama-Pacific International
Exposition, to be held in the year 1915, in celebration of the
opening of the Panama Canal, it is most desirous that a Com-
mission having the interest of the State in charge, be representa-
tive and influential, and that a sufficient sum of money be appro-
priated to allow them to have Maryland properly represented
at said exposition.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a Commission of twenty-five members shall be ap-