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spectively, or with intent to appropriate or apply the same to
any other object or purpose than authorized as aforesaid, every
such sale is hereby declared to be absolutely void, and every
manager of a lottery making or assenting to such sale, shall
forfeit and pay one thousand dollars, and every person making
or concerned in any purchase prohibited by this section, shall
forfeit and pay five thousand dollars, to be recovered by indict-
ment, the one-half to the informers, the other for the use of this
state, in the court of the county where the offence shall happen,
and if in the city of Baltimore the recovery shall be had in
Baltimore city court.
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SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That whenever the managers of
two or more lotteries, now authorized to be drawn, may agree
thereto, they may and are hereby authorized to consolidate the
lotteries respectively of which they are managers, and to agtee
that the managers of any one of said lotteries may propose a
scheme of a lottery to raise the several sums authorized to be
raised by all of said lotteries, or to select from all the managers
of said lotteries a board of managers, to propose a scheme for
raising the several sums so authorized to be raised by said lotte*
ries; and upon the managers of said lotteries, or a majority of
each, stating to the commissioners, in writing, that they have
agreed to form such a consolidation, with the names of the
managers agreed upon to propose a scheme of, and conduct
such consolidated lottery, it shall be lawful for such mana-
gers, so selected, to enter into a bond to the state of Maryland,
in the usual form of lottery bonds, in a penalty equal to the
joint penalties prescribed for state bonds to be given by the
managers of each of said lotteries, and upon so giving bond,
said managers so selected shall be and are hereby authorized,
to propose the scheme of a lottery to raise the whole sum autho-
rized to be raised by each of said lotteries so consolidated, and
shall be entitled to draw such consolidated lottery in such order
of time or succession as the first of said lotteries so consoli-
dated would have been entitled to draw if no such consolidation
had taken place, and the drawing of such consolidated lottery
shall be considered as the execution of the whole powers
granted to the managers of each of the said lotteries, so consoli-
dated, to draw the same; and the said managers, so selected,
and having given bond as aforesaid, shall have all the power and
authority, under the restriction herein contained, to sell and dis-
pose of the tickets in said consolidated lottery, and to draw the
same, and shall be responsible on said boilds, in the same man*
ner as the managers of any of said lotteries would have been
had they given bonds and proceeded to draw their lotteries
separately.
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Lotteries
may be con-
solidated.
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