784 Resolves, 1949. — Chaps. 44, 45.

the direction of the president of the senate and the speaker of the house, such sums as may be appropriated therefor. Approved July 28, 1949.

Chop. 44 Resolve in favor of Alfred r. wood of . Resolved, That, for the purpose of discharging a moral obHgation of the commonwealth and subject to appropria- tion, there shall be allowed and paid out of the state treasury to Alfred R. Wood of Boston the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars and ten cents in payment of his claim against the commonwealth for injuries sustained in the Hne of duty while attending the National Guard encamp- ment at Camp Plattsburg, Plattsburg, New York, in the year nineteen hundred and forty. No payment shall be made hereunder until there has been filed with the comp- troller an agreement signed by said Alfred R. Wood that five hundred and fifty dollars and ten cents of said amount will be paid by him to the Faulkner Hospital Corporation, and two hundred dollars thereof will be paid by him to Eugene E. O'Neil, M.D. Approved Jidy 28, 1949.

Chap. 45 Resolve providing for a mural in commemoration of COLONEL THOMAS CASS AND THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE NINTH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY, MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEERS, FOR SERVICES RENDERED TO THE STATE AND NATION DURING THE CIVIL WAR, AND TO PERPETUATE THE GLORIOUS TRADITIONS OF THAT REGIMENT.

Whereas, The commonwealth of Massachusetts honors the faithful services of her sons who formed a part of the land and sea forces of the in suppressing the War of the Rebellion, maintaining the integrity of the nation and Union of States, and emancipating a race of people from slavery; and Whereas, Among her sons was Colonel Thomas Cass, organizer and first commander of the Ninth Regiment of Infantry, Massachusetts Volunteers, who gave his life in defence of the flag and whose regiment established a record of gallantry and devotion to duty; and Whereas, The glorious traditions of that regiment have been exemplified in times of peace and in times of national peril in the Spanish-American War, on Mexican Border Service, and in World Wars I and II by the valiant suc- cessors of the original regiment, namely, the Ninth Regiment of Infantry, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, the Ninth Regiment of Massachusetts Infantry, United States Volun- teers, the Ninth Regiment of Infantry, Massachusetts Na- tional Guard, the One Hundred and First Regiment of Infantry, United States Army, and the One Hundred and First Regiment of Infantry, Massachusetts National Guard; therefore, in testimony of the people's gratitude for their patriotism and services rendered to state .and nation, be it