HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1703

State of Maryland on their contemplated visit to the
President.

WHEREAS,, It has come to the knowledge of the General
Assembly of Maryland that Their Majesties, King George VI
and Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain, will visit the President
of the United States during the year 1939, and

WHEREAS, His Majesty's predecessor, King Charles I, was
pleased to grant unto Cecilius Calvert, Baron of Baltimore, on
the twentieth day of June in the year 1683, the land and waters
now known as the State of Maryland, and

WHEREAS, The said Cecilius Calvert and his heirs were con-
stituted absolute lords and proprietors of the said Province
of Maryland, conditioned only upon the delivery by him and
his heirs of "two Indian arrows of those parts", therefore, be it
Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That His Ex-
cellency Herbert R. O'CONOR, Governor of Maryland, be and
he is hereby requested and authorized to name a committee,
with himself as chairman thereof, and including the President
of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Delegates, and such
number of members of the two branches of the General Assem-
bly and others as he may deem appropriate, for the purpose
of arranging for a welcome to Their Majesties upon entering
the State of Maryland on their contemplated visit to the
President of the United States, and be it further

Resolved, That, upon this occasion, His Excellency the Gov-
ernor shall present to His Majesty the King "two Indian ar-
rows" found in the State of Maryland, commemmorative of the
happy event of the granting of its charter, as an evidence of
good will toward Their Majesties and in appreciation of the
manifest benefits derived from the Mother Country by the peo-
ple of this State, and be it further

Resolved, That the Secretary of State of Maryland be and
he is hereby directed to forward under the Great Seal of the
State of Maryland a copy of these resolutions to the Secretary
of State of the United States with the request that he have it
transmitted through the proper officials to Their Majesties.

Approved April 26, 1939.