| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
CHAP. CXXIX.
An Additional Supplement to an act, (a) entitled, An act
to erect a
Town in Queen Anne's County.
Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 625.
(a) 1794, ch. 23. See 1802, ch. 54. |
1815.
CHAP. 129.
Passed Jan. 23, 1816.Z |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the commissioners of the town of Centreville be, and they are hereby
authorised and empowered, to levy annually a sum of money not
exceeding two hundred dollars current money, in addition to that
already allowed by law to be levied on the real property in said
town, to be collected as other levy on said town is collected, and
applied to the payment of the salaries of the clerk and bailiff of
said town, and to such other objects for the benefit of the said town
as the said commissioners shall determine to be necessary. |
Sum to be levied—
how to be applied. |
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CHAP. CXXX.
An Act authorising the Sale of certain Property therein mentioned.
Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 626. A Private Act.
The orphans court of Charles county
authorised to order the sale of a tract of
land called St. Mark Enlarged, purchased by Henry Dent of Walter
S. Chandler. |
Passed Jan. 23, 1816. |
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CHAP. CXXXI.
A Further Supplement to the act*, entitled, An act to incorporate
a
Company for the purpose of building a Bridge over the
River Susquehanna
near Rock Run. Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 627. |
Passed Jan. 23, 1816.
* Nov. 1812, ch. 143. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
it shall and may be lawful for the president and directors of the
Susquehanna Bridge Bank Company, to change the site of the
bridge authorised to be erected by the original act, which has been
found disadvantageous, and may fix on any other place for erecting
the same which a majority of them may think proper; Provided,
that they do not vary from the site already fixed upon more than
five hundred yards up or down the river. |
Site may be
changed. |
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CHAP. CXXXII.
An Act to authorise the drawing of a Lottery for the benefit of
the
West Nottingham Academy in Cecil County. Lib.
TH. No. 4,
fol. 628. |
Passed Jan. 23, 1816. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
John Stump, James Sewall, John Frey, William C. Miller, Samuel
C. Hall, Robert H. Archer, Levin Gale and George Kid, or a majority
of them, be and they are hereby authorised to propose a
scheme of a lottery for raising a sum of money not exceeding twenty
thousand dollars, and sell and dispose of the tickets thereof;
provided, that the said John Stump, James Sewall, John Frey,
William C. Miller, Samuel C. Hall, Robert H. Archer, Levin Gale
and George Kid, or a majority of them as shall undertake to act
under this law, shall before the sale or disposal of any ticket or
tickets in said lottery, give their joint and several bond to the
state of Maryland, in the penalty of forty thousand dollars, conditioned
that they will well and truly apply so much of the money
arising therefrom, within twelve months after the drawing of the
said lottery shall commence, as will satisfy the fortunate adventurers
for prizes drawn by them, and defray the necessary expenses
incurred in the management thereof. |
Lottery authorised
bond to be given. |
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