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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. CXXIV.
An Act to appoint Samuel Ogle Trustee for the Sale of the Real Estate
of Joseph Ogle, late of Frederick County, deceased.
Lib. TH.
No. 4, fol. 143. A Private Act.
A Supplement, 1815, ch. 149. |
DEC. 1813.
CHAP. 124.
Passed Jan. 27, 1814. |
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CHAP. CXXV.
An Act to authorise the raising a sum of money by a Lottery or
Lotteries to build an Arsenal for the City of Baltimore,
and for
other purposes. Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 144. |
Passed Jan. 27, 1814. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
John Stricker, James Calhoun, George P. Stevenson, Joseph Sterrett,
Standish Barry, Richard Key Heath, James Cheston, William
McDonald, Thomas Tenant, William Pechin, Joseph Biays,
junior, Kennedy Long, Samuel Moore, James L. Donaldson, Benjamin
Fowler, Jacob Steiger, James Biays, William Jackson, William
B. Barney, Lemuel Taylor, David Harris, Joseph Jamieson,
Solomon G. Alberts, Upton S. Heath, Henry Amry, John Young,
John Matthews and Thomas Sweeting, or a majority of them, be
and they are hereby appointed commissioners to propose a scheme
or schemes of a lottery or lotteries for raising a sum of money not
exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, clear of all expenses in
drawing said lottery or lotteries, and to dispose of the tickets
thereof as well in the city of Baltimore, as in any other part of
the state, clear of city taxes, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Commissioners appointed
to propose
schemes. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That before the said
commissioners, or
a majority of them, shall proceed to make sale of any ticket or
tickets in said lottery or lotteries, they shall give bond to the state
of Maryland, in the penalty of two hundred thousand dollars, conditioned
that they will well and truly conduct the drawing of
said lottery or lotteries, and within sixty days after the drawing
the same, apply so much of the money arising therefrom as may
be necessary to the payment of the prizes drawn therein to the adventurers
to whom they may be due, and conditioned also for the
payment over to the mayor and city council of the city of Baltimore,
from time to time, of the sum or sums of money which may be
raised by the said lottery or lotteries. |
To give bond before
the sale of
tickets. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said bond shall
be lodged in
the office of the clerk of Baltimore county court, and upon said
bond, or any office copy thereof, suit or suits may be instituted for
any breach or noncompliance with the condition thereof. |
Bond to be lodged
in the office of
clerk of the county. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That as soon as a sum
of money sufficient
to carry the object of this law into execution shall have been
raised by the said lottery or lotteries, and paid over to the mayor
and city council of Baltimore city, it shall be the duty of the said
mayor and city council to purchase a sufficient lot of ground in a
situation in the city or precincts of Baltimore, and to cause to be
erected thereon, for the use of the city, a good and sufficient fire
proof brick or stone building for receiving and safe keeping of
the arms, accoutrements and munitions of war, appertaining to the
militia of the city, precincts and county of Baltimore; and if after
completing the same there should remain any balance of money in
the hands of the said mayor and city council, that it shall be their |
Arsenal to be built
—How surplus of
money is to be appropriated. |
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