| DEC. 1813.
CHAP. 125. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
duty, out of said balance, to establish a permanent fund to be expended
in cleaning, repairing, and keeping in good order, the said
arms, accoutrements and munitions of war. |
Lottery authorised
for certain purposes. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That Dr. John Owen,
William Lorman,
Henry Thompson, J. B. Davidge, Hall Harrison, Jeremiah
Sullivan, William Gibson, Samuel Baker, Nathaniel Williams,
Washington Hall, Middleton B. Magruder, Peter Hoffman, Nathaniel
Potter, Elisha De Butts, Robert Carey Long, Richard W.
Hall, Nicholas Brice, Dennis A. Smith, William Gwynn, Fielding
Lucas, David Hoffman and George Winchester, or such of
them as shall consent to serve, be and they are hereby authorised
to propose a scheme or schemes of a lottery or lotteries, and to sell
and dispose of the tickets thereof as well in the city of Baltimore
as in any other part of the state, clear of city taxes or impositions,
any law to the contrary notwithstanding, for raising a sum of
money not exceeding thirty thousand dollars, free and clear of all
charges, deductions and expenses, attending the same, for the uses
and purposes herein after mentioned. |
Managers to give
bond—Money to
be applied to use
of Faculty of Physic. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That before the said
Dr. John Owen,
William Lorman, Henry Thompson, J. B. Davidge, Hall Harrison,
Jeremiah Sullivan, William Gibson, Samuel Baker, Nathaniel
Williams, Washington Hall, Middleton B. Magruder,
Peter Hoffman, Nathaniel Potter, Elisha De Butts, Robert Carey
Long, Richard W. Hall, Nicholas Brice, Dennis A. Smith, William
Gwynn, Fielding Lucas, David Hoffman and George Winchester,
or such of them as consent to serve, 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 penal sum of fifty thousand
dollars, conditioned that they will well and truly conduct the drawing
of said lottery or lotteries, and apply the money arising therefrom,
within six months after the drawing thereof, to the payment
of the prizes drawn therein to the adventurers to whom they shall
be due, and the charges and expenses incurred in the management
thereof, and will pay over the balance thereof to the members of
the Faculty of Physic in the University of Maryland, to be by
them applied to the payment of the balance due on the lot of ground,
and edifice thereon erected, which they own in the western precincts
of the city of Baltimore, and to the purchase and support of a
botanical garden, a library, and other necessary apparatus for the
said Faculty, which said bond shall be lodged in the office of the
clerk of Baltimore county, to be there recorded, and upon such
bond, or any office copy thereof, suit or suits may be instituted for
any breach or noncompliance with the conditions thereof. |
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Passed Jan. 24, 1814. |
CHAP. CXXVI.
An Act to incorporate a Company for making an Artificial Road by
the best and nearest route from the Philadelphia and
Lancaster
Turnpike Road, through the Village of Strasburg, in
Lancaster
County, to the Susquehanna Bridge at McCall's Ferry,
and from
thence to the City of Baltimore. Lib. TH.
No. 4, fol. 147.
See ch. 174, and 1815, ch. 42. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS the legislature of Pennsylvania, by their
act, entitled,
An act to enable the governor of this commonwealth to incorporate
a company for making an artificial road by the best and nearest |
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