ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 629

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 pro-
cure 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 pro-
vided.

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 tire three hundredth
anniversary of the founding 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 acceptable 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 neces-
sary for and adapted to said purpose for the use of cus-
todians, clerks and all persons desiring to examine and use
such records, and for the repair, preservation, handling
and safekeeping 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 speci-
fied 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