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the first Legislature Of Maryland sat, and
where they continued for several years,
when they removed to legislative house
erected at the old town of ST. Mary's, about
five miles higher up the river A battery of
three large cannon was also erected here (;
these, too, have got up and placed with the
others, making seven in number, and which
are all that were ever seen or known to be in
the ncighborhood. The whole together form
an interesting groupe to the antiquary, and
must be peculiarly SO to the inhabitants OF
Maryland, as this was one of the first parts
of the New World that was settled by
Whites, and the very first that was erected
into a British Province, and governed by laws
enacted in a Provincial Legislature. have
at present in my possession copies of some OF
the acts which were passed by the LcSisla-
ture whilst sitting in the Fort.


THOS. CARBERY.


9TH AUGUST, 1924.


N. b. Four of the guns are 18-pounders
and three of them 12-poundcrs. The first
arc larger than modern 24pounders, and two
of the latter arc larger and longer than 49,
Founders.