256                              LAWS OF MARYLAND                       [CH. 79

CHAPTER 79
(Senate Bill 761)

AN ACT to repeal subsections (a), (b) and (c) of Section 74A of
Article 41 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1965 Replacement
Volume), title "Governor—Executive and Administrative Depart-
ments," subtitle "Maryland Seal," and to enact new subsections
(a), (b) and (c) in lieu thereof, to stand in the place of the sub-
sections so repealed, revising the description of the obverse and
reverse sides of the Great Seal of Maryland.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That subsections (a), (b) and (c) of Section 74A of Article 41 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1965 Replacement Volume), title
"Governor—Executive and Administrative Departments," subtitle
"Maryland Seal," be and they are hereby repealed; and that new
subsections (a), (b) and (c) of said Article, Code, title and subtitle
be and they are hereby enacted to stand in the place of the subsections
so repealed and to read as follows:

74A.

(a)   The Seal heretofore and now in use and known as the Great
Seal of Maryland is legalized and adopted as the official seal of the
State of Maryland. Its official and heraldic description is given in
subsections (b) and (c) which appear below.

(b)   The obverse of the Seal (never used officially)—An equestrian
figure of the Lord Proprietary, arrayed in complete armour and
bearing a drawn sword in his hand. The caparisons of the horse are
adorned with the family coat of arms. On the ground below is repre-
sented a sparse growth of grass on sandy soil, with a few small blue
and yellow flowers. On the circle, surrounding the obverse of the
Seal, is the Latin inscription "Caecilius Absolutus Dominus Terrae
Mariae et Avaloniae Baro de Baltemore," meaning "Cecil absolute
lord of Maryland and Avalon Baron of Baltimore: (Avalon refers to
Lord Baltimore's first settlement in the new world, in Newfound-
land) .

(c)   On the reverse of the Seal fused as the official Seal of Mary-
land) is Lord Baltimore's hereditary coat of arms. The first and
fourth quarters represent the arms of the Calvert family described
in heraldic language as a paly of six pieces, or (gold) and sable
(black) a bend counter changed. The first and fourth quarters are the
left hand top quarter and the right hand bottom quarter. The second
and third quarters show the arms of the Crossland family, which
Cecil inherited, from his grandmother. Alicia, wife of Leonard
Calvert, the father of George, first Lord Baltimore. This coat of arms
is in quarters also, argent (silver) and gules (red) a cross bottony
(boutonnee. with a button or a three-leaf clover at the end of each
radius of the cross) counter-changed. Above the shield is placed an
Earl's coronet (indicating that though only a baron in England,
Calvert was an earl or count