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Resolution requiring the Governor to have full length like-
nesses made of the late Samuel Chase, William Paca,
and Thomas Stone.
THE General Assembly of Maryland, deeply impressed
with a sense of gratitude for the distinguished patriotism,
the private virtues, and the personal sacrifices of those
illustrious statesmen, who, by their meritorious services,
have eminently contributed to secure to us the proud in-
heritance of freedom, by affixing their names to that im-
mortal charter of human liberty, the Declaration of Inde-
pendence; and, animated by a further view to indicate to
posterity, in a manner the most striking and permanent,
noble models of patriotic devotion to our common country,
by perpetuating the memory of men who have largely con-
tributed to awaken the people of this State to a just esti-
mate of their inherent privileges, and to sustain their ardor
in the successful vindication of the rights of man, have al-
ready placed in the Senate Chamber a full length likeness
of one of the revolutionary sons of Maryland, and deeming
it right and proper, that those who in life were zealously
associated in the great cause of human liberty should he
equally proposed to the imitation of posterity; — Be it,
therefore,
Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
Governor be, and he is hereby requested, to procure to be
painted, by a native artist of this State, a full length like-
ness of Samuel Chase, William Paca, and Thomas Stone,
and place them in such part of the Stale House, as in the
opinion of his Excellency, may be best calculated to pro-
mote the object of this resolution; Provided, that the cost
of neither one shall exceed three hundred dollars.
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Passed Mar.20,1835
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