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reference to the construction and maintenance of other State
Highways and the acquisition of land and material therefor.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all Acts or parts of
Acts inconsistent with the provisions hereof are hereby re-
pealed.

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

Approved April 10th, 1914.

CHAPTER 277.

AN ACT to provide for the permanent marking of the bounda-
ries and outlines of Washington Cemetery, in Hagerstown,
Maryland, and providing for the erection of a suitable me-
morial arch therein, and to appropriate a sum of money
therefor.

WHEREAS, Washington Cemetery was incorporated by Chap-
ter 213 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland,
passed at its January Session, 1870;

WHEREAS, Said corporation purchased a lot of ground from
Rose Hill Cemetery Company at Hagerstown, Maryland, to be
used as a permanent burial place for the Confederate dead who
fell on the battlefields of South Mountain, Crampton's Gap,
Monocacy, Antietam and elsewhere, and who were temporarily
buried on said battlefields;

WHEREAS, The bodies of about Four Thousand (4,000) Con-
federates were removed from said battlefields and given per-
manent burial in said Washington Cemetery, where the graves
are now being cared for and kept in good order by the Trustees
of said Washington Cemetery, duly appointed in accordance
with the provisions of said Act of 1870;

WHEREAS, The boundaries of the lands of said Washington
Cemetery have never been definitely marked; and

WHEREAS, No suitable memorial arch has ever been erected
therein, both of which ought to be done, so that the boundaries
of said lands may be definitely located, and so that there may be
a suitable memorial arch therein.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or