GOVERNOR—EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENTS 1751

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 Commission 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 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 north-
east 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 land-
ing 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 inscription
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, walk 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