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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Trustees.

Sec. 2. Be it enacted, That Chapman Billingsley,
George H. Morgan, William L. Thomas, J. Par-
ran Crane, Marshall Dent, Joseph Forrest, George
Thomas, and James Langley, be, and they are
hereby appointed a Board of trustees of the State
of Maryland, to carry out the object and intentions
of this Act, in manner and form hereinafter desig-
nated. The said Trustees to act without any
pecuniary compensation.

Purchase lot.

Sec. 3. Be it enacted, That the said Board of
Trustees shall have the power to purchase a lot of
ground situated as provided for in the first Section
of this Act, which lot of ground when so purchased,
as aforesaid, shall be conveyed in fee, to the said
Board of Trustees, to be held in trust by them for
the purposes mentioned in this Act, and shall be
devoted in perpetuity, for the burial and final rest-
ing place of all the Confederate Soldiers who may
have died at any time during the late civil strife,
whilst prisoners of war at Point Lookout, in Saint
Mary's County.

Management.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the care and
management of said lot of ground are hereby
entrusted solely to the aforesaid Board of Trustees,
and their successors, and it shall be their duty,
out of the fund that may come into their hands
from State appropriations, or otherwise, to remove
the remains of the Confederate Soldiers referred to
in the first and second Sections of this Act, and
to have the same properly interred in the aforesaid
lot of ground when the same shall be purchased

Enclose,

and conveyed as aforesaid, to enclose the said
grounds with a good and substantial post and rail
fence not less than four feet high, or with an iron
fence of the same height, not to cost more than
five dollars per lineal foot as said Board of Trus-
tees may deem best, to erect suitable marks to
designate the graves of those whose remains can
be identified, to bury the remainder in one com-
mon grave or separately as they may deem best,
and further to do all things in their judgment
necessary and proper to be done, not inconsistent
with the laws of this State or of the United States.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That the aforesaid
Board of Trustees shall have power to receive
appropriations from the United States, and from