1874.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 977

foot of Sideling Hill. The stones used as monuments were
dressed stone, imported from England, and were placed on
the line a mile apart. At every five miles distance, the stone
had on the side facing north, the arras of Thomas Penn and
Richard Penn graved, and on the south side, the arms of
Frederick Lord Baltimore graved, and on the intermediate
stones were graved on the north side, the letter P, and on
south side, the letter M, (Pennsyvania—Maryland.)

These Commissioners having reached as far west as the
foot of Sideling Hill, found the stones prepared to be placed
on the line, as monuments were exhausted. They then pro-
ceeded to mark the line by erecting on the tops of ridges and
mountains, over which the line passed, heaps or piles of
stone and earth from six to seven feet in height.

The stone which were used as monuments were imported
from England, and were landed at either Philadelphia or
New Castle, the nearest port to the place where they were to
be used. As all these imported stone had been used, and
the western portion of the boundary line had been only
marked by piles of stone and earth, it became necessary to
import from England other stone to be used as monuments on
the line. And accordingly, in the year 1769, or the following
year, another importation was made, and these stones were
landed at Alexandria. From Alexandria they were trans-
ported to Fort Frederick, on the Potomac River, where they
still remain. The failure to use these stone as monuments
was probably from the difficulty to reassemble the Commis-
sioners at a point so distant from their homes, or from the
dangers they would incur in an unsettled country infested
with hostile Indians. And the Revolution occurring so soon
after, the political agitation had also an effect in preventing
the completion of the work of the Commissioners in erecting
these stone monuments on the boundary of Maryland and
Pennsylvania. And for a century they have remained at
Fort Frederick, unused for the purpose for which they were
imported from England. These stones are no doubt the
property of the State of Maryland, and she has a right, at
guch period as she wishes, to reclaim them.

Predicated on the foregoing statement, it has been deemed
of sufficient importance to make an inquiry after these monu-
mental stones at Fort Frederick, in order to ascartain their
number and character, and whether they are of any practical
value or not.

I have therefore thought proper to submit the following
order:

Ordered, That the Governor be requested to appoint a suit-
able person to examine these monumental stones at Fort