1846 JOINT RESOLUTIONS

priate and make available to the said Committee a sum of
not less than $2, 000. 00 nor more than $5, 000. 00 for the
purpose of defraying expenses of clerical and professional
assistance, which expenses shall have been authorized by
a majority of said Committee.

Approved April 11, 1953.

No. 11
(Senate Joint Resolution 24)

Senate Joint Resolution requesting the Governor to appoint
a Commission to mark a certain route and to designate
such route as Rochambeau Route.

WHEREAS, General Rochambeau led the Armies of the
French King through the State of Maryland, and the ad-
joining states to aid the forces of the American colonies
in the American Revolutionary War; and

WHEREAS, The route followed by General Rochambeau's
forces has been marked in the states adjoining Maryland;
and

WHEREAS, It is fitting that the exploits of these French
forces should be memorialized in the State of Maryland;
now therefore be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the Governor of Maryland be and is hereby requested to
appoint a Commission of not more than five citizens of the
State of Maryland to mark the route followed by Lieu-
tenant-General Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Compte
de Rochambeau, of the armies of the French King in Mary-
land on his way to the battle of Yorktown, to be known
as the Rochambeau Route. Such Commission shall arrange
with other states, through which the route passes, for a
celebration of the anniversary of the march of the Ro-
chambeau forces. An appropriation shall be made to the
Commission for necessary expenses, including the cost of
markers, not to exceed $500. 00.

Approved May 6, 1953.

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