This Stone, the cornerstone of a building to be erected at the public expense for a Provincial Lunatic Asylum, was, on the twenty-fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, in the eleventh year of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Victoria, by Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, and in the seventh year of the administration of His Excellency Sir William MacBean George Colebrook, K. H., Lieutenant Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Province of New Brunswick, laid with due solemnity by his excellency, assisted by the Right Worshipful the Provincial Grand Master, the Honourable Alexander Keith, and the Albion and other Masonic lodges. Commissioners: George P. Peters, Esquire; M.D.; William Jack, Esquire; John R. Partelow, Esquire; M.P.P., Mayor of the City of Saint John; Architect, Matthew Stead; Builder, Otis Small.