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at St. Mary's City in or about; the year 1674 on the area at St. Mary's
City bounded on its northwest side by Brome's Wharf Road and on its
northeast side by the State Road leading to Point Lookout, recently
donated to the State for said purposes by Mrs. Jeannette E. Brome
Howard and Mrs. Susette I. Brome Bennett, in which State House thus
to be erected, or on the outside as may be determined, shall be a suitable
memorial tablet upon which there shall be an inscription commemorating
the landing of the first colonists from the Ark and the Dove on March
27th, 1634, said tablet to be unveiled at the proper time with appropriate
ceremonies, provided that in the event that for any reason the State of
Maryland should not be able to secure the title to the said area, the said
Commission shall select and procure for the State of Maryland some other
suitable site in St. Mary's City, upon which site said replica of the original
State House and said memorial tablet shall be erected with proper inscrip-
tion and unveiling ceremonies as above provided.

The said Commission or the Board of Public Works shall cause the
area upon which the said replica of the old State House, with memorial
tablet, is to be erected, to be adorned with shrubbery, trees and flowers,
and with such roads, walks and steps as will afford good and convenient
ways and approaches to the said memorial. And, further, as incident to
the said commemoration of the three hundredth anniversary of the found-
ing of Maryland, the Board of Public Works shall acquire by purchase,

condemnation, gift or otherwise such lot or lots, or parcels of ground, in
the City of Annapolis, Maryland, within the vicinity of other public
buildings in said City as, in the judgment of said Board of Public Works'
may be best suited for the purpose hereinafter specified, and shall cause
to be erected thereon a durable, modern, fireproof building of adequate
proportions and of appropriate design and architecture, to be known as
the "Memorial Hall of Records, " in which shall be gathered, placed and
preserved all ancient public and private records of the Province and State

of Maryland from the beginning of the Province to the adoption of the
Federal Constitution, together with such others of a like character accept-
able to the State of Maryland, which the City of Baltimore and the several
counties of the State and private individuals may desire or be willing to
deposit in said building, and to provide and supply said building with the
best equipment of desks, tables, filing cases, chairs, shelves and stacks and
other furniture and facilities necessary for and adapted to said purpose
for the use of custodians, clerks and all persons desiring to examine and
use such records, and for the repair, preservation, handling and safekeep-
ing of the same; the said building, in addition to the special purposes
hereinbefore set forth, may be used for such other purposes as the Board
of Public Works may determine not in conflict with said special purposes.
The funds for carrying out all the purposes hereinbefore specified to be
in such amount or amounts as may be provided by the State of Maryland
in the supplemental budget or in the general construction loan of 1931,

or in any subsequent budget, loan or appropriation by the State. Pro-
vided that all Acts and functions of the Maryland Tercentenary Com-