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Memorial Commission" be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

78.

A War Memorial Commission consisting of ten (10) members is
hereby created and the Secretary of General Services, with the ap-
proval of the Governor, of the State of Maryland is hereby author-
ized, empowered and directed to appoint five (5) members of said
Commission, and the Mayor of the City of Baltimore is hereby au-
thorized, directed and empowered to appoint five (5) members of
the said Commission. All members appointed after June 1, 1945,
shall be Maryland war veterans.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That Sections 3 and 6 of Chapter
213 of the Laws of Maryland, 1870, be and the same are hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

3.

The [Governor] Secretary of General Services shall appoint three
Trustees for the State of Maryland, to serve for three years, and
who may be reappointed in the discretion of the [Governor] Secre-
tary of General Services, and there shall be one Trustee for each of
the other States, to be appointed by the Governors of their respec-
tive States, and the same are hereby created a body politic, in law,
under the style and name and title of the Washington Cemetery,
which shall be a part of the Department of General Services, and by
that name, style and title shall have perpetual succession, and be
able and capable in law to have and use a common seal, to sue and be
sued, plead and be impleaded, in all courts of law and equity, and to
whom shall be conveyed in trust, for the purpose above recited, the
ground so purchased; said Trustees shall have all the incidental au-
thority necessary to carry into effect the object of this corporation.

6.

In case of neglect or failure of the Governor of any State to fill a
vacancy in the Board of Trustees, the Trustees may supply the place
by appointing a citizen of the particular State which is represented
in the Board by reason of such vacancy. It shall be the duty of the
Trustees to report to the [Governor] Secretary of General Services
on the first day of January in each and every year, of the condition
and management of the Cemetery, which report shall contain a de-
tailed statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Corpora-
tion, and a copy thereof shall be forwarded to the Governor of each
State represented in the Corporation. The expenses incident to the
removal of the dead, inclosing and ornamenting the Cemetery, and
all the work connected therewith and its further [maintainance]
maintenance, shall be apportioned among the States connecting them-
selves with the Corporation according to the number of dead they
may have upon the aforementioned battlefields.

SECTION 8A. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED BY THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, THAT SECTION 52 OF
ARTICLE 78A OF THE ANNOTATED CODE OF MARYLAND
(1957 EDITION, 1969 REPLACEMENT VOLUME), TITLE