ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1311

CHAPTER 536.

AN ACT to authorize the creation of a State debt in the aggre-
gate amount of seventy-five thousand dollars ($75, 000), the
proceeds thereof to be used by the Mayor and City Council
of Cumberland, a municipal corporation of the State of
Maryland, for such repairs, reconstruction, and other public
improvements as may be necessary to help said city recover
from the damage done to public property by the recent flood,
and providing generally for the issue and sale of certificates
of indebtedness evidencing such loan.

(Vetoed. )

CHAPTER 537.

AN ACT to create an unpaid War Memorial Commission for
the State of Maryland and the City of Baltimore, consisting
of ten (10) members, five (5) to be appointed by the Gov-
ernor, and five (5) by the Mayor of Baltimore, and to
empower said War Memorial Commission to issue regula-
tions for the management of the War Memorial Building;
to expend the funds appropriated for the maintenance of
the War Memorial Building; to appoint a Custodian, and
Janitor for the War Memorial Building, and to take title on
behalf of the State of Maryland and the City of Baltimore
to the War Memorial Building.

WHEREAS, The War Memorial Building provided for in
Chapter 448, Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland,
1920, is now nearing completion, so that the Building Com-
mission authorized in that Act is nearing the end of its juris-
diction; and

WHEREAS, In order that the War Memorial Building may
be of use to the people of Maryland and the City of Baltimore,
it should be placed under the jurisdiction and management of
a permanent commission; and

WHEREAS, The State's half of the necessary expenses for
the War Memorial Building is provided in the Budget ap-
proved by the General Assembly of 1924, therefore.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a War Memorial Commission consisting of ten (10)
members be and is hereby created and that the Governor of the
State of Maryland is hereby authorized, empowered and di-
rected to appoint five (5) members of said Commission, and