Province sent in 1648, and is referred to as the "Greater Seal
at Arms." There were, at this time, several lesser seals in
use; and these seals are referred to, at least, in one place, as
the "lesser seal at arms." The impressions preserved show
them to have been very much on the order of the Great Seal.
Upon all these small seals a lambrequin attached to the
helmet is substituted for the mantle represented upon the
Great Seal.

THE SIXTH SEAL.

The Convention of 1776 adopted the Great Seal of the
Province as the Great Seal of the State, until a new one
could be devised.

THE SEVENTH SEAL.

In the year 1794 the Council adopted a new seal for the
State. Upon the obverse was a female figure representing
Justice, holding aloft the scales in her left hand, and in her
right an olive branch. Rays of light emanated from behind
and surrounded the figure. Below were the fasces, and an
olive branch crossed, and upon the border were graven the
words, "Great Seal of the State of Maryland." On the
reverse was depicted a tobacco hogshead standing upright,
with bundles of leaf tobacco lying thereon. Two sheaves of
wheat stood in the foreground, and in the background could
be seen a ship approaching shore, with fore and main top-sails
set, the other sails furled. At the base was a cornucopia.
On the circle about this side were the words: "Industry the
means and plenty the result."

THE EIGHTH SEAL.

On March 4, 1817, the Council adopted a new seal. The
device was ordered to be the coat-of-arms of the United
States, surrounded with the words "Seal of the State of
Maryland."
THE NINTH SEAL.

The seal of 1817 remained the seal of the State until 1854,
when the apparatus called "the Great Seal" had become so
worn that a new one had to be made. Governor Enoch Louis
Lowe called attention to the inappropriateness of the State
seal, and he suggested that the new seal bear the arms of the
State. The Legislature of that year ordered a new seal.
There was no longer a Governor's Council in existence to
make and unmake seals. The Legislature intended to return
to the old seal of the Province. In the preparation of the
Seal it had evidently recourse to a rough wood-cut, printed