The Province of Maryland was an English colony from 1632 until the American Revolutionary War of 1776. According to the royal charter granted by Charles I, settlers to Maryland were obliged to send the monarch a pair of Native American arrows each year as tribute, in addition to one-fifth of the silver and gold mined there. The tradition lapsed over time, but was revived in 1922 when this pair of arrows was presented to King George V at Buckingham Palace by the Society of the Ark and the Dove. The society, established in 1910, commemorates the colonisation of Maryland and takes its name from the ships Ark and Dove which brought the first settlers there in 1634.