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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
the number of students that apply for admission at said
academy, and they have prayed that a law may pass authorising a
lottery to raise a sum of money to render said building more commodious,
and to procure a library for the benefit of the students of
the said academy; and it appearing reasonable that an act should
pass agreeably to said prayer, therefore, |
1801.
CHAP. 11. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for the trustees or visitors of Frederick
county school, or a majority of them, to propose a scheme or
schemes of a lottery for raising a sum of money not exceeding
three thousand five hundred dollars, and to sell and dispose of the
tickets thereof; Provided, that the said trustees, or a majority
of
them, as aforesaid, do before the sale or disposal of any ticket or
tickets in said lottery, give their bond to the state of Maryland, in
the penalty of five thousand dollars, conditioned that they will
well and truly apply so much of the money arising therefrom,
within three months after the drawing of said lottery, as will satisfy
the fortunate adventurers for prizes drawn by them. |
Trustees may propose
a scheme of a
lottery.
Proviso. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That after deducting
the necessary
expenses in said lottery, the said trustees, or a majority of them,
shall apply the residue of the money raised by said lottery to enlarging
the building in which said academy is held, or in such
manner as in their discretion they shall think most promotive of
benefit to said institution. |
Apply the money
to enlarging building. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the trustees aforesaid
shall, and
they are hereby directed, in their next annual report to the general
assembly, to state the manner in which the money raised in conformity
to this act has been applied. |
To report to general
assembly
manner in which
money has been
applied. |
5. AND, whereas it is stated to this general
assembly, that the
appointment of an additional number of trustees or visitors would
tend to the advancement of the objects contemplated in the establishment
of said seminary, and that the investing of certain powers
in the principal professor of said academy would be promotive
of benefit to said institution, BE IT ENACTED, That William Luckett,
William Hobbs, of Samuel, Roger Nelson, Peter Mantz, John
Schley, Joshua Dorsey, Daniel Clarke, junior, and Robert Cummings,
be and they are hereby appointed trustees of Frederick
county school, in addition to those already acting as trustees in
pursuance of the act of assembly, * entitled, A supplement to the
act, entitled, An act for erecting a public school in Frederick county.
6, 7, 8. These three sections repealed by November 1809, ch. 194. |
Trustees appointed.
* 1796, ch. 65. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the trustees or
visitors aforesaid,
shall, annually, on the first day of January, or within ten days
thereafter, elect by ballot, a treasurer, librarian and secretary,
which treasurer shall, within ten days after his election, give bond,
in the penalty of one thousand dollars, for the faithful performance
of his trust; which said bond shall be lodged in the clerk's office of
said county, there to be recorded, for the recording of which the
clerk shall receive the sum of fifty cents. |
Election of treasurer,
librarian
and secretary. |
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