LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1819.

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CHAPTER 162.

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act for regulating the
mode of Staying Executions, and repealing the Arcts of Assembly therein
mentioned, and for other purposes.
Expired by its own limitation.

CHAPTER 163.

AN ACT, entitled, an Act supplementary to the Act, entitled, an Act to
regulate Lolteries.
See notes to 1817, ch. 154, ante page 673.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That if the managers of any lottery authorised by any law of
this state, shall sell any scheme of said lottery, the right to
draw the said lottery shall be forfeited, and each of the mana-
gers who shall be concerned in the sale of the said lottery shall
forfeit the sum of thre.e thousand dollars, to be recovered in the
county court of the county where the offence shall be com-
mitted, or in Baltimore city court if committed in the city of
Baltimore, provided that this act shall not be construed to affect
the consolidating lotteries according to the provisions of a sup-
plement to the act, entitled, an act to regulate lotteries, passed
at December session eighteen hundred and seventeen.
SEC. 2. Merged in 1828, ch. 129; 1831, ch. 79.

Managers
of any
scheme au-
thorized by
law selling
the same,
right to
draw
forfeited.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
judges of the several county courts of this state, and of Balti-
more city court, to give this act in charge to the grand jury at
their regular terms, till the first day of January eighteen hun-
dred and twenty-five.

Act to be
given in
charge to
grand juries

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the act, entitled, an act for
the prevention of lotteries, passed at November session seven-
teen hundred and ninety-two, be and the same is hereby
repealed.

CHAPTER 167.

A further and additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act for the
recovering Small Debts out of Court, and to repeal the Act of Assembly
therein mentioned.
See note 1791, ch. 68, ante page 277.

An act
repealed.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be
lawful for any justice of the peace to exercise jurisdiction (in
all cases where he can now exercise jurisdiction), over small
debts, wherein either executors or administrators shall be
plaintiffs, or executors or administrators shall be defendants,
except that it shall not be lawful for any justice of the peace
to issue a warrant against any executor or executors, adminis-

Justice to
exercise ju-
risdiction in
cases
where
executors,
&.c. are
plaintiff or
defendants.