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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

expenses of the trustee appointed on the part of
this State, will be defrayed by the General Assem-
bly thereof.

Legislature to
make provision
for the pay-
ment of propor-
tion to bo con-
tributed by this
State.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That upon receiving
the report of the board of trustees of the design,
plan, material and expense of said monument,
and an estimate of the proportion to be contrib-
uted by this commonwealth, as herein provided,
the General Assembly will make provision for
the payment of the same in such instalments as
the said board of trustees shall have declared to
be necessary.

In force.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall
be in force from and after its passage.

CHAPTER 425.

Passed March
10, 1858.

AN ACT to continue the State's appropriation
for the benefit of colonization.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, by an act of the General Assembly of
Maryland, passed at December session, eigh-
teen hundred and thirty-one, chapter two hun-
dred and eighty-one, entitled an act relating to
the people of color of this State, it was pro-
vided that the Governor and Council should
appoint a board of managers consisting of
three perilous, members of Maryland State Col-
onization Society, and an annual appropriation
was made to be applied by the said board of
managers in removing emancipated slaves and
free people of color to the Colony of Liberia,
or elsewhere out of the United States, and in
making preparations at said Colony, or else-
where as the said managers might think best,
which would seem to them expedient for the
reception, accomodation and support of the
persons to be removed until they could support
themselves, and which said appropriation ceased
at the end of the year eighteen hundred and
fifty-one; And whereas, by another act of the