| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
aforesaid; and for the information of those who reside at a greater
distance, the said commissioners shall cause a like account to be
delivered to the person or persons occupying the property so taxed. |
1815.
CHAP. 207. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all and every part
of the ninth
section of a supplementary act passed at November session, eighteen
hundred and seven*, to which this is a supplement, as is contrary
to or inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and the
same are hereby repealed. |
Parts of an act repealed.
* Ch. 113. |
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CHAP. CCVIII.
An Act annulling the Marriage of George Little, and Mary his Wife.
Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 96. |
Passed Jan. 29, 1816. |
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CHAP. CCIX.
An Act authorising a Lottery to raise a sum of money for certain
purposes
therein mentioned. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 96. |
Passed Jan. 29, 1816. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Henry Thompson, James Sterett, John McFadon, William Gwynn,
William McDonald, George Stiles, Ludwig Herring, Charles Wirgman,
Samuel Chase, George Winchester, Thomas Sheppard and
Hezekiah Price, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby
authorised to raise by way of lotteries, a sum of money not exceeding
fifty thousand (a) dollars over and above all expenses and commissions
allowed on sales of tickets, for the purposes therein mentioned,
or such person or persons as a majority of them shall authorise
may sell the tickets, in such lotteries, in the city of Baltimore,
or in any part of the state, free from any tax or charge
thereon, for the purpose of deepening and walling up all that part
of Jones's Falls in the city of Baltimore, that may be bounded by
public streets, and also for conveying a stream of water that passes
down Harford-street in said city to the basin of Baltimore, in a culvert
or tunnel below the surface of said street, the one half to be
applied for deepening and walling the falls, and the other half for
culvering Harford-street.
(a) By 1816, ch. 138, the sum
of 100,000 dollars may be raised; the penalty of
the bond to be doubled, and directions how the money raised is to be applied.
The width of Jones's Falls to be reduced. |
Lottery authorised
—tickets may be
sold in any part
of the state. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any one or more
of the persons
above named as managers to conduct the said lotteries shall
die, resign or refuse to act, the mayor and city council of Baltimore
may appoint one or more managers to fill the vacancy thereby
occasioned, and the person or persons so appointed shall have
the same powers and authority to act under this law as those who
are named herein. |
Vacancies, how to
be supplied. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That before the managers
herein before
named or to be appointed as aforesaid, shall proceed to act
under this law, they shall execute a bond to the state of Maryland,
in the penal sum of one hundred thousand (b) dollars, with condition
that they will well and truly pay all prizes that shall be drawn
in any lottery which they shall propose in virtue of this act, at the
expiration of sixty days after the conclusion of the drawing of
such lottery, to the persons holding the tickets entitled to such.
(b) See note to section 1. |
Managers to give
bond. |
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