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determine the type and character of records, documents, publications and.
other data which it will accept or receive for safekeeping.

The Commission shall have power to acquire by gift, or to purchase with
any funds appropriated or given to it for that purpose, any records, docu-
ments, publications or other material which it may deem worthy of
preservation.

1035, ch. 18, sec. 87E

87E. Every State, county, city, town or other public official in the
State in custody of public records or documents is hereby authorized and
empowered, in his discretion, to turn over to the Commission and deposit
for preservation any original papers, official books, records, documents,
files, newspapers, printed books, or portraits, not in current use in his
office, and when so surrendered, and accepted by the Commission, copies
may be made and certified under the seal of the Commission upon appli-
cation of any person, which certification shall have the same force and
effect as if made by the officer originally in charge of same, and the Com-
mission shall charge for such copies the same fees as such officer is allowed.
by law to charge, which fees shall be accounted for and paid into the
State Treasury. ¹

Maryland Tercentenary Commission.

1931. ch 487. sec. 1. 1933, ch. 344.

87F. The Commemoration of the Three Hundredth Anniversary of
the founding of Maryland shall be duly and properly celebrated, under
the authority and direction of the Maryland Tercentenary Commission
heretofore appointed, and of such additional members thereof and of such
other commission or committee as may be appointed by the Governor;
and as incident to said commemoration, the said Maryland Tercentenary
Commission, or the commission or committee authorized to be appointed,
as aforesaid, shall select and procure in the name of the State a suitable
site at Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, and cause to be designed and
erected thereon, and unveiled, a durable memorial of stone and/or bronze,
with appropriate inscription, marking the place from whence the original
settlers sailed in the "Ark" and the "Dove" for the Province of Maryland,
November 22, 1633, and shall also select and procure in the name of
the State a suitable site on St. Clement's (now Blackiston's) Island, in
the Potomac River, Maryland, and cause to be designed and erected
thereon, and unveiled, a durable and appropriate memorial of stone
and/or bronze or other suitable material, with appropriate inscription,
marking the place where the original settlers first made their temporary
landing in Maryland on or about March 25th, 1634; and the said Com-
mission or the Board of Public Works as the latter may determine, shall
cause to be designed and erected a replica of the first State House erected

¹ Sec. 2, ch. 18, acts of 1935, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith to extent
of such inconsistency.