EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1810.

sey Goodwin and Thomas Beale Dorsey, of John, through whose ground the contemplated altera-
tion of Ten Feet lane passes, to lay open as a public street or highway for ever, that piece or parcel
of ground situate and being in the city of Baltimore, and contained within the following metes,
bounds, courses and distances, to wit: beginning for the same at the distance of seventy-six feet
from the intersection formed by the north lines of King, Tammany and Chatham-streets, intersect-
ing at five feet six inches east from the west line of Ten Feet lane, and running thence, binding on
Chatham-street, north, eighty-six and three quarter degrees east, sixteen feet, thence running north,
two and three quarter degrees west, seventy-two feet, to Ten Feet lane, thence running north, thirty-
seven and three quarter degrees east, fifty-two feet, to that part of said Ten Feet lane laid open of
the width of sixteen feet by the said Richardson Stewart, thence north, sixty-nine and three quarter
degrees west, sixteen feet, thence south, thirty-seven and three quarter degrees west, fifty-four feet,
i thence by a straight line to the place of beginning; and the said city commissioners shall return a
plot of the said street to the office of the register of the city of Baltimore, there to be preserved
and recorded as other city records are.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the said street shall be laid open by the said city commis-
sioners as aforesaid, then all that part of Ten Feet lane which lies between Chatham-street and Vul-
can-alley, shall be vested in, and become the property and estate of, the said Caleb Dorsey Goodwin
and Thomas Beale Dorsey, of John, their heirs and assigns, for ever.

CHAP. XLIX.

CHAP.
XLVIII.

An ACT to confirm an Act passed at November session, eighteen
hundred and nine, entitled, An Act to alter and abolish all that part
of the Constitution which permits certain Citizens of Annapolis to
vote for Delegates for Anne-Arundel County.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the act passed at November session,
eighteen hundred and nine, entitled, An act to alter and abolish all that part of the constitu-
tion which permits certain citizens of Annapolis to vote for delegates for Anne-Arundel county, be
and the same is hereby confirmed.

CHAP. L.

Passed Decem-
ber 23, 1810.

An ACT to prevent the erection of Booths within two miles of any
Methodist Camp or Quarterly Meeting, in Worcester, Kent, Al-
legany, Caroline or Caecil Counties.

WHEREAS it hath been represented to this general assembly, by the Methodist Society of
Worcester county, that sundry persons set up booths and sell liquor and other things, near
their camp and quarterly meetings, during divine service, whereby those places intended for solemn
worship are converted into places of traffic, debauchery and immorality, to the great disturbance
of the society; therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That whosoever, from and after the pas-
sage of this act shall erect a booth for the purpose of selling, or shall sell or dispose of, any spi-
rituous liquor within two miles of any Methodist camp or quarterly meeting, in Worcester, Kent,
Allegany, Caroline or Caecil counties, during the camp or quarterly meeting of the said Methodist
Society, shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten pounds current money of this state, one half thereof
to be applied to the use of the county, the other half to him or them who shall sue for the same, to
be recovered in like manner as other fines and forfeitures.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing in this act shall be construed to hinder any ordinary

keeper or licensed retailer, from selling liquors and other things in their respective dwelling-houses
or stores.
CHAP. LL

Passed Decem-
ber 23, 1810.

An ACT to establish a Bank, and incorporate a Company, under
the name of The Elkton Bank of Maryland.

WHEREAS it is the opinion of this general assembly that the agricultural, commercial and
manufacturing interests of this state, will be promoted by the establishment of a bank at
Elkton, in Caecil county; therefore,

Passed Decem-
ber 23, 1810.