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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1817.

Executors
of sheriffs
may
complete
collection.

have given bond, then and in every such case his executors or
administrators, if any, or the securities of such sheriff, shall be
and they hereby are authorized and empowered, to complete the
collections of all fees placed in the hands of the deceased 'sheriff,
within the time prescribed by law, during the year in which
such sheriff shall have died, in the same manner as the sheriffs
of the several counties are authorized by law.

CHAPTER 210.

*Ch. 154.

Lotteries
excepted.
t 1816, ch.

78.

f 1816, ch.
186.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act to regulate Lotteries.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the lottery for the benefit of the University of Maryland, f
and the Fell's Point Masonic Hall Lottery , tt and the lottery for
raising a sum of money to buy a lot of ground in Frederick-
town, in Frederick county, and build a church and parsonage

§1816, ch.
42.

Proviso.

house thereon, § be and the same is excepted from the provi-
sions of the act, entitled, an act to regulate lotteries ; Provided
always, that the tax of five per cent, shall be paid on all the
prizes in each of the said lotteries, and that before either of the
said lotteries shall commence drawing, the managers of such
lottery shall lodge with the treasurer of the western shore a
bond by him approved, conditioned for the payment of five per
cent, on the amount of the prizes in such lottery, within sixty
days after the drawing of the same shall be completed ; and the
managers of any of the said lotteries, offending against the pro-
visions 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 committed, or in the city
court of Baltimore, as the case may be, for the use of the state.

No further
scheme to
be pro-
posed, &c.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That when either of the two lot-
teries excepted in the original act to which this is a supplement,
or either of the three lotteries mentioned in this act, shall have
drawn any scheme of a lottery, it shall not be lawful for the
managers of such lottery to propose any further scheme of a
lottery, but the drawing of one lottery by the managers of either
of the aforesaid lotteries shall be a full execution of all the
powers vested in such managers by this or any other act of
assembly heretofore passed.

Penalty for
appropria-
ting money
in any other
way than
authorized
by law.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if either of the lotteries
herein before named, or the schemes thereof not at this time
actually sold, or if any other lottery or lotteries heretofore au-
thorized, or the schemes thereof, shall be hereafter sold in the
whole or in part, or in any manner disposed of, whereby the
sums authorized to be raised, or any part thereof, could be
applied or appropriated to any other object, use or purpose, than
such as are declared by the law authorizing such lotteries re-