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CHAP. 116. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
and affording them relief by such employment, and to adopt such
rules and regulations for the admission of the poor therein, for their
employment and support whilst there, and for the general direction
and government of said house, as shall be from time to time found
necessary and proper. |
Managers to give
bond. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said mayor
and city council
shall take a bond or bonds in such amount and with such security
as they may approve, from the managers of said lottery, before
the sale of any tickets therein, conditioned for the payment of all
prizes that may be drawn in the same according to the scheme or
terms thereof, and for the payment over to the said mayor and city
council of the money to be raised thereby. |
| Application of money. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the money authorised
to be raised
by the lottery aforesaid, shall be applied under the direction of
the mayor and city council aforesaid to the purposes directed by
this act, in such manner as they may consider most judicious and
useful. |
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Passed Jan. 31, 1815. |
CHAP. CXVII.
An Act authorising Zephaniah Waters, of Charles County, to raise
by
Lottery a sum of money for the purpose therein mentioned.
Lib.
TH. No. 4, fol. 375.
A Supplement, 1815, ch. 127. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS Zephaniah Waters, of Charles county, hath
set forth
by his petition to this general assembly, that great advantages would
result to the inhabitants of that section of the state where he resides,
from the erection of a fulling mill with a carding and spinning machinery
thereto annexed, and hath prayed that an act may pass authorising
him to raise by lottery a certain sum of money for the
purpose aforesaid; therefore, |
Lottery authorised
for erecting a fulling
mill, &c. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for Alexander Johnson, Joseph Simpson,
Joseph A. Turner, James Boarman and Zephaniah Waters, or a
majority of them, to propose a scheme or schemes of a lottery to
raise a sum of money not exceeding two thousand dollars, and to
sell and dispose of the tickets thereof; provided the said Alexander
Johnson, Joseph Simpson, Joseph A. Turner, James Boarman and
Zephaniah Waters, or such majority of them as shall undertake to
act, before the sale or disposal of any ticket or tickets in said lottery,
shall give bond to the state of Maryland in the penalty of ten
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 in the erection of a fulling mill with a carding
and spinning machinery thereto annexed, in Charles county, at a
place to be procured and fixed on by the said Zephaniah Waters,
with the approbation of the commissioners aforesaid, and for the
benefit and advantage, and as the property and estate thereafter,
of the said Zephaniah Waters, his heirs and assigns. |
Sum to be applied
to erect mill as far
it may suffice. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case the sum
of money to be
raised by the provisions of this act shall not be sufficient for the |
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