PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.

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LIMITATION OF APPEALS.

No writ of error or appeal shall be prosecuted upon any judgment after

three years shall elapse from the time the judgment was rendered,

except writs of error coram vobis — 1826, ch. 200, sec. 13, .

887

No appeal from any decree of a court of equity, shall be made nine

months from the time the decree was passed, except the same was

obtained by fraud— 1826, ch. 200, sec. 14, .

887

An appeal from a magistrate's judgment may be prosecuted within sixty

days, (except in the city of Baltimore) — 1829, ch. 236,

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See Magistrates' Court.

LOOMS.

See DISTRESS.

LOTTERY.*

Robbery or larceny of lottery tickets punishable in the same manner

as of goods and chattels — 1809, ch. 138, sec. 6, .

576

Persons insuring, or causing to be insured any ticket or part of a ticket,

in any lottery, or selling the same for any limited time, reserving

any right or interest therein, or making any contract respecting the

same, other than a complete bona fide sale, to forfeit $30 for every

offence— 1809, ch. 154, ........

590

One-half to the informer, the other to the county, to be recovered be-

fore a justice as small debts are — 1809, ch. 154, ....

590

Proceedings relative to lotteries previously granted — 1817, ch. 164,

673

Penalty on the managers of any lottery offending against the provisions

aforesaid— 1817, ch. 154, sec. 1, p. 673 ; ch. 210, sec. 1,

682

The managers of all lotteries drawn in the state authorized and required

to deduct from the prizes five per cent, in addition to that proposed

by the scheme — 1817, ch. 154, sec. 2, .

673

The same to be paid within sixty days to the treasurer or the bonds

of the managers to be put in suit — 1817, ch. 154, sec. 2,

673

The governor and council authorized to appoint three persons as com-

missioners of lotteries, and to remove them at pleasure — 1817, ch.

154, sec. 3, .......

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Their salaries are to be paid out of the five per cent, and from no other

moneys, by the treasurer — 1817, ch. 154, sec. 3, .

674

The commissioners authorized to appoint a clerk, with a salary paya-

ble in the same manner — 1817, ch. 154, sec. 4, ....

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Duties of the commissioners as to examining and approving schemes,

and signing tickets, before a sale — 1817, ch. 154, sec. 5,

674

All lotteries authorized by the state shall be drawn in the city of Balti-

more, if desired by the managers, &c. and superintended by them,

or their agents, with the assent of the commissioners— 1817, ch.

154, sec. 6, ....

674

* To comprehend the provisions in relation to lotteries, it is indispensable that

the notes to the various chapters should be consulted; in them an effort is visible

to reconcile their conflicting provisions.