. Book of the Royal blue . portionsby modern improvements, but the vacantground has had erected upon it a handsomechurch and fine educational buildings. The present State House is the thirdState House erected on the same site. Thefirst was built in 1696, the second in 1704,and the third in 1772. It lays iis claim tonational importance by the fact that here,long before the Revolution, the Marylandlegislature resisted, with heroic spirit, theencroachments of the Royal governors ontheir liberties, and in the senate chamberWashington resigned his military commis-sion; Congress ratified the treaty
. Book of the Royal blue . portionsby modern improvements, but the vacantground has had erected upon it a handsomechurch and fine educational buildings. The present State House is the thirdState House erected on the same site. Thefirst was built in 1696, the second in 1704,and the third in 1772. It lays iis claim tonational importance by the fact that here,long before the Revolution, the Marylandlegislature resisted, with heroic spirit, theencroachments of the Royal governors ontheir liberties, and in the senate chamberWashington resigned his military commis-sion; Congress ratified the treaty of peacewith Great Britain that made us free andindependent colonies, and it is quite cer-tain that the conference of five states thatwas held at Annapolis in 1785, and whichled to the convention that formed a moreperfect union of states, met in this his-toric chamber. xVnnapolis occasionally loses, from onecause or another, one of these historictreasures. Two have been burned in thelast half centurv and two torn down. One. THK IKUUY STKWaUT HOUSK, ANXAIOLIS. AN OLD TOWN IN A NEW AGE. 13
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