Baltimore lacked authority to take down Confederate monuments
Source: Baltimore Sun
The Maryland Historical Trust has concluded that Baltimore officials didnt have the legal authority to remove three monuments to the Confederacy and says it reserves the right to order the city to put them back.
Elizabeth Hughes, director of the Maryland Historical Trust, shared the trustees conclusions in an October 20th letter to the head of Baltimores architectural preservation agency.
Hughes said the state trustees will not concede that MHT lacks the authority
to compel restoration.
That said ... the Trustees believe that the best way forward is for MHT and the City to work cooperatively towards a mutual resolution, she wrote.
Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-confederate-monuments-letter-20171026-story.html
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