o - .3 ' /3 ~/3 802292 The Flag and the Great Seal of Maryland From Gambrill’s Leading Events of Maryland History By permission of Ginn and Company, Publishers MARYLAND MANUAL rf 1904 HALL OP RECORDS ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND A COMPENDIUM Legal, Historical and Statistical Information relating to the STATE OF MARYLAND Published Under Act of 1900, Chapter 240. Compiled by OSWALD TILGHMAN, Secretary of State. BALTIMORE: Wm. J. C. Dulany Co. loo'? 3 Chapter 48, Acts of 1904. An Act to formally adopt and legalize the Maryland flag. Whereas, It is represented to the General Assembly that the flag designed and used as the Flag of Maryland, under the Proprietary Government, and which is still known as the Maryland Flag, has never been formally adopted by Maryland as a State, its use having been continued by common consent only; and, Whereas, It is not only desirable that the official Flag of Maryland should be formally adopted and legalized, but it is eminently fitting that, by reason of its historic interest and meaning, as well as for its beauty and harmony of colors, the flag adopted should be the one which, from the earliest settlement of the Province to the present time, has been known and distinguished as the Flag of Maryland; therefore, ,y • ■ SECTION i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the flag heretofore, and now in use, and known as the Maryland Flag, be and the same is hereby legalized and adopted as the flag of the State of Maryland, which said flag is particularly described, as to coloring and arrangement, as follows: Quartered—the first and fourth quarters being paly of six pieces, or and sable, a bend dexter counterchanged; the second and third, quarterly, argent and gules, a cross bottony countersigned; that is to say, the first and fourth quarters consist of six vertical bars alternately gold and black with a diagonal band on which the colors are reversed, the second and third consisting of a quartered field of red and white, charged with a Greek Cross, its arms terminating in trefoils, with the coloring transposed, red being on the white ground and white on the red, and all being as represented upon the escutcheon of the present Great Seal of Maryland. SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Flag of Maryland shall be dis- played from the State House at Annapolis, Maryland, continuously during the session of the General Assembly, and on such other public occasions as the Governor of the State shall order and direct, the flag always to be so arranged upon the flag-staff as to have the black stripe on the diagonal bands of the first quartering at the top of the staff as represented in the illustration of the Maryland P'lag in “Chronicles of Colonial Maryland.” SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved March 9, 1904. errata. Baltimore City Omitted. BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF HORSESHOERS. Harvey C. Baker Journeyman Horseslioer 1905 John B. Byrnes Master Horseskoer iqos Dr. Frederick h. Felber Veternarian 1906 James E. Keating Journeyman Horseslioer 1906 Michael J. Heagerty Master Horseshoer 1908 Board consists of five members appointed by the Governor. One shall be a veternarian, two shall be master horseshoers, and two shall be journeymen horseshoers. Term four years from appointment (Chapter 491, 1898.) BOARD OF SIDEPATH COMMISSIONERS. Page 192. J. D. Murray Howard County 1905 W. Eason Williams Baltimore City ;. 1906 Conway W. Sams Ba timore City 1907 Rosewell W. Graves Baltimore County 1908 James P. Curley Prince George’s County 1909 FIFTH REGIMENT ARMORY COMMISSION. Page 193. Frederick M. Colston, Baltimore City, appointed, vice W. T. Dixon deceased. MARYLAND HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE, BOARD OF MANAGERS. Page 194. John W. Renehan, St. Mary’s County, appointed, vice Francis White, deceased. SECOND HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE, BOARD OF MANAGERS. Page 194. John O. Wadlow, Carroll County, reappointed, vice self, failed to qualify. ASYLUM AND TRAINING SCHOOL BOR THE FEEBLE MINDED, BOARD OF VISITORS. Page 195. Thomas J. Ewell, Baltimore City, appointed, vice W. G. Rinehart deceased. INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR COLORED GIRLS, BOARD OF MANAGERS. Page 196. Clifton E. Krebs, Baltimore City, appointed, vice C. E. Allen, failed to qualify. TROOP “A” ARMORY BUILDING COMMISSION. Page 199. Clinton L. Riggs, appointed, vice John S. Saunders, deceased. Chapter 240 of the Acts of 1900. An Act to provide for the animal compilation and publication of a Manual of the State of Maryland. SECTION i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to accurately prepare and publish annually, on December thirty-first of each year, a Manual of the State of Maryland. Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That said Manual shall consist of not less than fifteen hundred copies in each year, five hundred of which shall be bound in cloth and shall contain a copy of the Charter and Consti- tution of the State, a complete list of Members of the Legislature, with their postoffice addresses, the names and addresses of all State and county officers elected by the people, as well as those appointed by the Governor and the Board of Public Works; a brief summary of the duties of the several State officers; the official returns of the State election of each year; a list of State, educational, charitable, reforma- tory and benevolent institutions, with the amounts appropriated to each by the State; the amounts paid by counties to the public schools of the State on account of public school tax; the gross and net debt of the State at the close of each fiscal year; the area, population, assessable basis and tax rates in the several counties of the State and City of Baltimore; the construction of the Judicial system of this State; the official payroll of the State, and such other information as his judgment may seem right and proper. Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the said Manual shall be distributed as follows: Twenty-five copies, bound in cloth, to the Maryland State Library; ten copies, two of which shall be bound in cloth, to each of the Members of the Legislature; one copy to each of the Clerks of the Circuit Courts of the State and the several courts in Baltimore city; one copy to each of the Boards of County Commissioners of this State, and the remaining number to the Executive Department, to be distrib- uted by the Secretary of State to each of the several States of the Union, to the public libraries in this and other States, and to officials and citizens of this State. Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act, compiling, printing and distributing said Man- ual, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby annually appropriated; and the Comptroller of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer, who is hereby directed to pay same, in favor of the Secretary of State upon the presentation of proper vouch- ers by him that the work above mentioned has been fully done, which vouchers shall be filed in the office of the State Comptroller. Approved April 5, 1900. CHARTER OF MARYLAND. Translated from the Latin Original. CHARLES,* by the grace of GOD, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, king, Defender of the Faith, &c. To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting. II. Whereas our well beloved and right trusty Subject, CHJCELIUS CALVERT, Baron of BALTIMORE, in our Kingdom of Ireland, Son and Heir of GEORGE CALVERT, Knight, late Baron of BALTIMORE, in our said Kingdom of Ireland, treading in the Steps of his Father, being ani- mated with a laudable and pious Zeal for extending the Christian Religion, and also the Territories of our Empire, hath humbly besought leave of Us, that he may transport by his own Industry, and Expence, a numerous Colony of the English Nation, to a certain Region, herein after described, in a Country hitherto uncultivated, in the parts of America and partly occupied by Savages, having no Knowledge of the Divine Being, and that all that Region, with some certain Privileges, and Jurisdictions,appertaining unto the wholesome Government, and State of his Colony and Region aforesaid may by our Royal Highness be given, granted, and confirmed unto him and his heirs. III. Know ye therefore that WE, encouraging with our Royal P'avour, the pious and noble Purpose of the aforesaid Baron of BALTIMORE, of our special Grace, certain Knowl- edge, and mere Motion, have Given, Granted, and Con- firmed, and by this our present CHARTER, for US, our Heirs, and Successors, do Give, Grant and Confirm, unto the aforesaid CZECILIUS, now Baron of BALTIMORE, his Heirs and Assigns, all that Part of the Peninsula, or Cher- sonese lying in the Parts of America, between the Ocean on the East, and the bay of Chesapeake on the West, divided from the Residue thereof by a Right Line drawn from the Promontory, or Head Land, called Walkin's Point, situate upon the Bay aforesaid, near the river of Wighco, on the West, unto the Main Ocean on the East; and between that Boundary on the South unto that Part of the Bay of Dela- ware on the North, which lieth under the Fortieth Degree of North Latitude from the Aequinoctial, where New-England is terminated; And all the Tract of that Land within the Metes underwritten, (that is to say,') passing from the said Bay, called Delaware Bay, in a right line, by the degree aforesaid, unto the true Meridian of the first Fountain of the River of Pattowmack, thence verging toward the South, unto the further Bank of the said River, and following the same on the West and South, unto a certain place called Cinquack, situate near the Mouth of the said River, where it disem- bogues into the aforesaid Bay of Chesapeake, and thence by ♦Charles the First, of England.