ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                1217

under whose wise direction said beneficent government was
initiated and maintained, and because no adequate repository
for the preservation of the irreplaceable records made and left
to posterity by the founders of the Province and State has ever
been provided by the State, and because it is the laudable de-
sire of all good citizens of the State that said notable persons
should be specially honored, and said unprecedented events and
achievements should be commemorated; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the commemoration of the three1 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 commis-
sion or committee as may be appointed by the Governor; and
as incident to said commemoration, the said Maryland Ter-
centenary Commission, or the commission or committee au-
thorized 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 there-
on, 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 there-
on, and unveiled, a durable and appropriate memorial of stone
and/or bronze or other suitable material, with appropriate in-
scription, marking the place where the original settlers first
made their temporary landing in Maryland on or about March
25, 1634; and shall also select and procure in the name of the
State a suitable site at St. Mary's City, Maryland, and shall
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 thereon,
marking the traditional place at St. Mary's City where the
first settlers landed from the "Ark" and the "Dove, " March
27, 1634, and made their first permanent settlement, which
memorial shall be erected on said site within the area, con-
taining nearly three acres., recently donated to the State for
said purpose, and to be laid out and maintained by the State
as and for a public park surrounding said" memorial. And the

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