E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1852.

to the colony of Liberia or elsewhere out of the State,
and in making preparations at said colony or else-
where, as the said managers might think best, which
should seem to them expedient for the reception, ac-
commodation and support of the persons to be remov-
ed, until they could support themselves, and which
appropriation amounting in the aggregate to two hun-
dred thousand dollars, was assessed upon the several
counties of the State and Baltimore city, at the rate of
ten thousand dollars per annum, in the proportions in
the said act, as modified by the act of eighteen hundred
and thirty-eight, chapter two hundred and sixty-nine,
changing the assessment of Frederick county, particu-
larly described, and which said appropriation ceased at
the end of the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one;
And whereas, it is desirable that the said appropriation

of ten thousand dollars per year, should he renewed
and continued so that the policy of the State in pro-
viding a home in Africa for the emancipated slaves and
free colored population, and for their removal thither,
may be maintained and carried out, Therefore,

CHAP. 202.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the Treasurer of the State, be,
and he is hereby required to pay on the warrant of the
Comptroller, to the board of managers appointed under
the act of eighteen hundred and thirty-one, chapter
two hundred and eighty-one, the sum of ten thousand
dollars annually, for the space of six years, commenc-
ing with the year eighteen hundred and fifty-two, in
the manner in which he has heretofore paid the like
amount under the act last aforesaid, to be appropriated
for the purposes in the said act mentioned.

Treasurer au-
thorised to
pay managers
$10,000 annu-
ally, for six
years.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Comptroller of
the Slate, be, and he is hereby required to issue his
Warrants to the Treasurer, on the drafts or requisitions

of the said board of managers, so as to authorise the
payment by him of the amounts aforesaid.

Comptroller
to issue his
warrants to
Treasurer.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the appropriation
now made, shall be applied to the benefit, exclusively,

of persons of color, who shall have been bona fide resi-
dents of Maryland, for the space of five years next pre-
ceding their application to become emigrants.

To be applied
exclusively
for benefit of
persons of
color.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the Legislature re-
serves the right to repeal at any lime, the appropriation
now made or any part thereof.

Reservation.