| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
CHAP. XLIII.
An Act for the benefit of the Baltimore Carpenter's Humane Society.
Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 457. |
1815.
CHAP. 43.
Passed Jan. 5, 1816. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for the Baltimore Carpenter's Humane
Society to appoint thirteen persons as managers of a lottery or
lotteries, who, or a majority of whom, when so appointed, are
hereby authorised and empowered to propose a scheme or schemes
of a lottery or lotteries, to raise a sum of money not exceeding
fifteen thousand dollars, clear of all expenses which may be incurred
in drawing said lottery or lotteries, and to sell and dispose of
the tickets thereof, and to draw the same; provided, the managers
so appointed by the Baltimore Carpenter's Humane Society, before
they proceed to sell or dispose of any ticket or tickets in said lottery
or lotteries, give bond to the state of Maryland, in the penal
sum of thirty thousand dollars, conditioned that they will well and
truly apply so much money arising therefrom, within sixty days
after the drawing of said lottery is completed, as will satisfy the
fortunate adventurers for prizes drawn by them, and for the faithful
application of the money authorised by this act to be raised,
which bond shall be lodged in the office of the clerk of Baltimore
county court, there to be recorded, and upon which bond, or any
office copy thereof, suit or suits may be instituted against the obligors
therein mentioned, or their legal representatives, for any
breach or noncompliance with the conditions of the same. |
Lottery authorised
—bond to be given. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the managers of
said lottery or
lotteries may sell or dispose of all or any part of the tickets in
the
city of Baltimore, or elsewhere, any law or usage to the contrary
notwithstanding. |
Tickets may be
sold in Baltimore
or elsewhere. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the net proceeds
of the lottery
or lotteries shall be applied by the managers to the erection of a
hall in the city or precincts of Baltimore, for the use and accommodation
of the Baltimore Carpenter's Humane Society, and the
support of a school for the education of the indigent children of
its members, and other benevolent purposes, under the direction of
said society, and to be and remain the property for ever of said
Baltimore Carpenter's Humane Society. |
Proceeds, how to
be applied. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That an act*, entitled,
An act authorising
a lottery for the purpose of building a Carpenter's Hall in
the city of Baltimore, be and the same is hereby repealed. |
Act repealed.
* 1812, ch. 69. |
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CHAP. XLIV.
An Act to make public a Road in Baltimore County. Lib.
TH. No.
4, fol. 458. |
Passed Jan. 4, 1816. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
Christopher Carnan, Cornelius Howard, Thomas B. Cockey, John
Bond, junior, and Robert N. Moale, are hereby appointed commissioners,
and they, or a majority of them, are hereby authorised to
survey and make a plot of a private road in Baltimore county,
leading from a public road at the mouth of Samuel Owing's lane,
and thence running until it intersects another public road near
Richard Owing's smith's-shop, and the same, when so surveyed,
and a plot thereof returned to Baltimore county court, to be recorded
among the land records thereof, be and the same is hereby |
Commissioners appointed
to survey a
road. |
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