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Passed Jan. 15.
No miller to
demand more
than one eighth
Part of an act
repealed.
Duration.
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CHAPTER 76.
An act to alter and amend the act, entitled, An act for the
encouragement of such persons as will undertake to build
Water Mills.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the first day of March, in the year eighteen
hundred and seventeen, no master, owner, miller, or other per-
son properly belonging to, or otherwise owning any mill within
this state, shall ask, demand or receive, for grinding any quantity
or quantities of Indian corn or rye, above one-eighth part of every
bushel of Indian corn or rye by him or them so ground as afore-
said, upon penalty and forfeiture of fifty dollars current money,
for every offence, one half to the use of the state, and the other
half to him or them that shall inform or sue for the same, to be
recovered in the respective counties by action of debt, before
any justice of the peace, in the manner as prescribed by law for
the recovery of small debts out of court.
2. And be it enacted, That so much of the act to which this is
an amendment, repugnant to the provisions herein contained, be
and the same is hereby repealed.
3. And be it enacted, That this act shall have force until the end of
the next session of the general assembly.
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Passed Jan. 16.
Scite selected
to be adopted.
Lottery autho-
rised.
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CHAPTER 77.
An Additional Supplement to the act, entitled, An act res-
pecting a Monument or Statue to the memory of Wash-
ington.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the scite selected for the monument to the memory of Wash-
ington on North Charles-street, in the precincts of Baltimore,
upon which said monument hath been commenced, shall be and
the same is hereby adopted and confirmed in lieu of the place
designated in the original act; and the care and custody of
the said monument, when finished, shall belong to the mayor and
city council of Baltimore.
2. And whereas, it is doubtful whether the sum of one hundred
thousand dollars, authorised to be raised by one or more lotteries
for the erection of said monument, will be sufficient, therefore,
Be it enacted, That James A. Buchanan, David Winchester, John
Comegys, James Calhoun, junior, Nicholas G. Ridgely, James
Williams, George Hoffman, James Patridge, Robert Miller,
Washington Hall, Isaac M'Kim, Lemuel Taylor, Robert Gilmor,
jun. Fielding Lucas, John Trick, James Barroll, Benjamin H.
Mullikin, Nathaniel F. Williams, Levi Hollingsworth, Edward
J. Coale, Dr. James Cooke, William Gwynn, and William H.
Winder, or their survivors and survivor, be and they are hereby
authorised to raise by lottery or lotteries, as is authorised in the
original act to which this is an additional supplement, such fur-
ther or other turn as may be necessary to finish and complete the
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