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CHAP. 73. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
and fairly bounded and numbered, and from time to time thereafter
see that the said boundaries be kept up and preserved. |
May employ a
clerk. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
or any five of
them, shall have full power to employ a clerk, who shall be under
oath, fairly and honestly to enter into a book, to be kept for that
purpose, all the proceedings of the said trustees relating to said
town, in which book, among other things, shall be kept a fair plot
of the said town, describing every lot by its number, and the name
of the holder thereof, and the said book shall always be open to the
inspection and examination of the said trustees. |
Ground surveyed
to be called Charlotte's-Ville. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the parcel of ground
which may
be surveyed and laid out by the said trustees as aforesaid, shall be
for ever thereafter called and known by the name of Charlotte's-Ville,
and is hereby vested in the trustees of Charlotte Hall school,
and their successors, and they are hereby authorised and empowered
to sell and dispose of, in fee-simple, the lots in the said town, and
make and execute deeds of conveyance for transferring the same. |
Deeds, how to be
executed. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all deeds for the
conveyance of
any lot or lots in the said town, sold by the trustees as aforesaid,
shall be executed by the president of the said school, or in case of
his absence, by the chairman of the meeting of the said trustees at the
time when the said deed may be executed, which deed, when so executed,
shall be recorded among the land records of Saint-Mary's
county. |
Scheme of a lottery
may be proposed
for disposing
of lots.
Proviso. |
7. AND, whereas the said trustees have prayed,
that after the
said town shall have been surveyed and laid out as aforesaid, they
may be authorised and empowered to dispose of the lots therein by
lottery, to raise a sum of money for the use and improvement of
Charlotte Hall school; therefore, BE IT ENACTED, That it shall
and may be lawful for the said trustees, or any five of them, as soon
as they shall have laid out the said town, and shall have returned a
certificate and plot thereof into the clerk's office of Saint-Mary's
county, in the manner herein before directed, to propose a scheme
or schemes of a lottery for disposing of all the lots in said town, or
such number of them as they may think proper, and to sell and
dispose of the tickets in said lottery; Provided, any five or more
of
the said trustees do, before the sale or disposal of any ticket or
tickets in said lottery, give their bond to the state of Maryland in
the penalty of five thousand dollars, conditioned that they will,
within twelve months from the drawing of the said lottery, well and
truly make over and convey, in fee-simple, unto each of the fortunate
adventurers, the lot or lots respectively drawn by them in said
lottery, and shall, after deducting the necessary expenses incurred
in drawing said lottery, well and truly apply the residue of the
money raised by said lottery to the improvement and advancement
of the said school, in such manner as they shall from time to time
deem proper; which bond, when so given, shall be binding on the
whole of the trustees of said school, and their successors, in the
same manner as if all the trustees of the said school had signed the
same. |
Bond to be lodged
and recorded in
clerk's office. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of said trustees,
before the sale or disposal of any ticket in said lottery, to
lodge such bond in the clerk's office of Saint-Mary's county, there
to be recorded, and upon such bond, or any office copy thereof, suit |
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