LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1817.

673.

CHAPTER 154.

AN ACT to regulate Lotteries.
Other laws, 1817, ch. 210; 1818, ch. 179; 1819, ch. 163; 1820, ch. 144;
1821, ch. 191 ; 1824, ch. 131 ; 1825, ch. 210, 221 ; 1826, ch. 268 ; 1827, ch.
160; 1828, ch. 129; 1831, ch. 79; 1835, ch. 205.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in all cases where lotteries have been heretofore autho-
rized, under which power is given to raise a particular sum of
money by one or more lotteries, and the managers may have
drawn a lottery or lotteries, the scheme of which purported to
raise the sum authorized to be raised, that in all such cases
the power and authority given to raise money thereby, be and
the same is hereby considered as completed, and the power to
draw any other lottery or lotteries, under the same authority, be
and the same is hereby declared at an end, and the act autho-

Lotteries
heretofore
authorized,
proceedings
relative
thereto.

rizing the same is repealed ; Provided^ that the prohibition in
this section contained shall not extend to the Surgical Institu-

Proviso.

tion Lottery,* or Medical College Lottery ,f the prizes drawn
therein to Be nevertheless subject to the five per centum by this
act imposed upon all prizes; And provided further > that before
a drawing of any lottery shall be had under the foregoing pro-
viso, the managers shall give bond, with two or more sufficient
securities to be approved by the treasurer of the western shore,
conditioned for the payment of the said five per centum into the
treasury, at the expiration of sixty days after the drawing shall
be completed ; and the managers of any lottery offending
against the provisions aforesaid, shall forfeit severally the sum
of five thousand dollars, to be recovered by indictment in the
county court of the county where the offence shall be com-
mitted, or in the city court of Baltimore, as the case may be,
for the use of the state.
By ch. 210, other lotteries excepted in like manner.

*1815, ch.
30.

t 1807, ch.

in.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the managers of all lotteries
which may hereafter be drawn in this state, be and they are
hereby authorized and required, to deduct from all prizes in said
lotteries five per centum, in addition to the deduction provided
for by the scheme of said lottery, and within sixty days after
the drawing of any such lottery shall be finished, shall pay
over the said five per centum to the treasurer of the western
shore of Maryland, for the use of the state, and in case they do
not so pay over the said five per centum, the bonds of said
managers shall be put in suit in the county where they may
reside.
By 1818, ch. 179, the managers to pay to the treasurer five per cent,
upon the gross amount of prizes, and on payment thereof, and not before,
the commissioners to permit the drawing the lottery.
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Five per
cent, to be
paid into
the treasury