The mace disappeared from its resting-place in the old State House in Charles Town, now Charleston, during the last part of the American Revolution.  The Honorable Langdon Cheves of South Carolina found the mace in 1819 when he went to Philadelphia as the President of the Bank of the United States.  The mace was found in a vault at the bank and then returned to South Carolina.  The mace was taken a second time from a locked glass case during the night of February 3, 1971.  Chief J.P. Strom of SLED recovered it in Gainesville, Florida.  It was returned to the House of Representative and is now placed in a secure vault.