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An ACT to authorise the drawing of a Lottery or Lotteries in Mid-
dle-Town, in Frederick County.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Joseph Swearengen, Henry Stembel,
Adam Lawrance, Christopher Syfert, Thomas Powel, Jacob Alexander, junior, Lewis Creager
and Jonathan Levy, or such of them as shall enter into bond as herein after required, be and they
are hereby authorised to raise by lottery or lotteries, at any place within this state, a sum not ex-
ceeding two thousand dollars, and sell and dispose of the tickets at any place within the same, free
from any tar.
II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That before any of the persons above named shall proceed to make sale
of any ticket or tickets, they shall give bond in double the sum to be raised by said lottery or lotte-
ries, conditioned that they will well and truly apply so much of the money arising therefrom, within
six months after the drawing thereof,, as shall satisfy the fortunate adventures for prizes drawn by
them, and after deducting the necessary expenses, within two years thereafter apply the residue for
the purpose of purchasing a lot of ground in Middle-town, and erecting thereon a market: house and
seminary of learning.
HI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the bond so as aforesaid to be entered into, be lodged with the
clerk of Frederick county court, and upon the same, or any office copy thereof, suit or suits may be
brought for any breach -or non-compliance with the conditions thereof.
CHAP. LXIV.
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Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.
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An ACT to incorporate a Company for making an artificial Road
from French-Town, on Elk River, in Caecil County, in the State
of Maryland, to the Delaware line, in a direction towards the Town
of New-Castle.
WHEREAS the general assembly of the state of Delaware, by an act passed the twenty-fourth
day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine, entitled, An
act to incorporate a company for making an artificial road from the town of New-Castle, in New-
Castle county, to the line of the said state, and to extend the same artificial road from thence, by
the nearest and best practicable course, to French-town, on Elk river, in Caecil county, in the state
of Maryland, did, by the twenty-seventh section of the same act, enact, that the same act, with its
provisions and limitations, should commence and take effect immediately after the legislature of the
state of Maryland should authorise and empower the making of a like artificial road by the same
company, from whence the road therein authorised would strike the line of that state, by the nearest
and best practicable route, to French-town aforesaid: And whereas important interest of this state
will be promoted by incorporating the said company, and authorising and empowering the same com-
pany to make a like artificial road as herein before recited and described, from where the road autho-
rised by the herein before in part enacted act of the general assembly of the state of Delaware,
which may strike the line of this state, by the nearest and best practicable route, to French-town
aforesaid; therefore,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall be lawful for the commissi-
oners named in the said act of the general assembly of the state of Delaware, or one or more of
them, or the survivor or survivors of them, or either of the said survivors, or of other commission-
ers, or either of them, that may he appointed for the like purpose by a future act of the said general
assembly, to open, at any time and place, the books provided by them pursuant to the power and
authority given by the same act, for receiving, and then and there receive, in manner and form
therein prescribed, subscriptions for shares in the said company, and keep the same books open, ad-
journing from time to time, until the whole number of shares of stock in the said company shall be
subscribed, of which adjournment the commissioners aforesaid shall give notice as the occasion may
require; and when the whole number of shares shall amount to six hundred, (as prescribed and pro-
vided by the said act of the general assembly of the state of Delaware, ) the books shall be closed;
provided always, that every person offering to subscribe in the said books in his own name, or any
other name, shall previously pay to the attending commissioners the sum of ten dollars for every
share to be subscribed, out of which shall be defrayed the expenses attending the taking such sub-
scriptions, and other incidental charges, and the remainder shall be paid over to the treasurer of the
corporation, as soon as the same shall be organized, and the officers chosen as hereafter mentioned.
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Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.
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