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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
entitled, An act authorising a lottery to raise a sum of money for
opening and clearing the road to be opened from Westminster, in
Frederick county, to George-town, be and the same is hereby repealed. |
1810.
CHAP. 165. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for
Jacob Shearman, of Frederick county, James Hood and Beale
Owings, (of Christopher,) of Baltimore county, Doctor Charles
Alexander Warfield, of Anne-Arundel county, Thomas Davis,
Nathan Musgrove and Henry C. Gaither, of Montgomery county,
or a majority of them, to propose a scheme or schemes of a lottery
to raise a sum of money not exceeding four thousand dollars, and
to sell and dispose of the tickets thereof; provided, the said Jacob
Shearman, of Frederick county, James Hood and Beale Owings,
(of Christopher,) of Baltimore county, Doctor Charles Alexander
Warfield, of Anne-Arundel county, Thomas Davis, Nathan Musgrove
and Henry C. Gaither, of Montgomery county, or such majority
of them as shall undertake to act, before the same or disposal
of any ticket or tickets in said lottery, shall give their bond to the
state of Maryland, in the penalty of eight thousand dollars, conditioned
that they will well and truly apply so much of the money
arising therefrom, within six months after the completion of drawing
said lottery, as will satisfy the fortunate adventurers for prizes
drawn by them, and after deducting the necessary expenses incurred
in said lottery shall, within eighteen months after the drawing
of said lottery is completed, cause the said money to be laid out
and expended and opening and clearing the road from Westminster,
in Frederick county, to George-town and the city of Washington,
in the best manner the sum raised will admit. |
Scheme may be
proposed—bond to
be given. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of said commissioners,
or such majority of them as may act, before they act
as such, to lodge a bond in the clerk's office of the court of appeals
of the western shore of this state, there to be recorded, and
upon such bond, or upon any office copy thereof, suit or suits may
be instituted against the obligors therein named, or any of them, or
their legal representatives, for any breach or noncompliance with
the condition of the same. |
Bond to be lodged
in clerk's office. |
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CHAP. CLXVI.
A Supplement to an Act*, entitled, An act to lay out and open a
Road
from the Franklin Paper-Mill on Gwinn's Falls, in Baltimore
County, to the New Liberty Road. Lib. TH.
No. 3, fol. 8. |
Passed Dec. 25.
* Ch 23. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
John McClellan and Caleb Merryman, be and they are hereby appointed
commissioners, to act in conjunction with the commissioners
in fulfilling and discharging the duties assigned to them by an act
to which this is a supplement. |
Additional commissioners
appointed. |
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CHAP. CLXVII.
An Act to lay out and open a Road from Archibald Dysart's Tavern,
in Cecil County, to the Pennsylvania line, in the direction
to Lund's
Tavern. Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 8.
This act repealed by Nov. 1812, ch. 6. |
Passed Dec. 25. |
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