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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1817.

Three com-
missioners
to be
appointed.

SEC, 3, And be it enacted, That the governor and council be
and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to appoint atid
commission three discreet and good men, to be styled commis-
sioners of lotteries, removable at the will of the governor and
council, and each commissioner shall be entitled to receive an
annual salary of twelve hundred dollars, to be paid out of the
aforesaid five per centum deduction from prizes, and from no
other moneys, which said salary the treasurer of the western
shore is authorized to pay semi-annually out of said funds
only.
By 1821, ch. 191, sec. 6, salary of one thousand dollars to be paid out
of the net proceeds.
By 1825. ch. 210, a further salary of five dollars in the hundred on all
proceeds over and above thirty thousand dollars a year.

May
appoint a
clerk.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners, or a
majority of them, be and they are hereby authorized and em-
powered, to appoint some fit and proper person to act as their
clerk, removable at the pleasure of a majority of said commis-
sioners, who shall be entitled to an annual salary of one thou-
sand dollars, payable from the same fund, and in the same
manner as the salary of the commissioners.

Schemes to
be submit-
ted to com-
missioners.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the managers of all lotteries
hereafter to be drawn, except as before excepted, shall submit
the schemes thereof to said commissioners, who if they find the
same not contrary to the law authorizing the same, and the pro-
visions of this act, shall approve it, and upon such approval the
said managers shall, as soon thereafter as they may choose and
be prepared so to do, present the tickets iti said lottery to said
commissioners, whose duty it shall be, without delay, to exa-
mine the numbering and signing said tickets, and upon finding
the same correct, some one or more of said commissioners shall
sign his or their name on the backs of each ticket, and return
the whole tickets so examined and endorsed back to the mana-
gers, who may thereupon, without delay, proceed to sell and
dispose of said tickets.

All lotteries
may be
drawn in
Baltimore—
and how,
&c.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That all lotteries authorized by
this state shall be drawn in the city of Baltimore, if desired by
the managers thereof, or the persons authorized by law to pro-
pose such lottery, and if they prefer it, to superintend the same,
or procure others with the assent of said commissioners so to
do, and the said commissioners shall within three months after
their first appointment, publish a list of all lotteries authorized
by law, and which have not been drawn as herein before de-
clared, arranging them in the order in which the acts authoriz-
ing them were passed in point of time, publish the same for one
month in the several newspapers in the city of Baltimore, and
said lotteries shall be drawn under the direction of said commis-