| 1816.
CHAP. 186.
Passed Feb. 3, 1817. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. CLXXXVI.
An Act to authorise the drawing of a Lottery or Lotteries in the
City
of Baltimore to build a Masonic Hall for Washington
Lodge No. 3,
in that part of said City known and distinguished
by the name of
Fell's Point. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol.
334. |
| Lottery authorised, |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Tobias E. Watkins, Peter Little, William H. Winder, George
Winchester, Sheppard C. Leakin, George Myers, John Berry,
George Keyser, Stephen H. Moore, Henry Dorry, James Cordery,
James Vinson, Thomas Worrell and Jacob Bier, or a majority
of such number of them as are disposed to act under this
law, be and they are hereby authorised to propose a scheme or
schemes of a lottery or lotteries, and to sell and dispose of the
tickets as well in the city of Baltimore, as in any other part of the
state, clear of taxes, any law to the contrary notwithstanding,
for raising a sum of money not exceeding thirty thousand dollars
over and above all expenses and commissions allowed on sales of
tickets, and expenses of drawing said lottery or lotteries, for the
purpose of purchasing a lot of ground, and erecting thereon a
Masonic Hall for Washington Lodge, No. 3, in that part of the
city of Baltimore, known and distinguished by the name of Fell's
Point. |
Managers to give
bond. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That before the said
Tobias E. Watkins,
Peter Little, William H. Winder, George Winchester, Sheppard
C. Leakin, George Myers, John Berry, George Keyser,
Stephen H. Moore, Henry Dorry, James Cordery, James Vinson,
Thomas Worrell and Jacob Bier, or such others as may be appointed
as herein after provided, proceed to make sale of any ticket
or tickets in said lottery or lotteries, they shall give bond in the
penalty of sixty thousand dollars, conditioned that they will well
and truly conduct the drawing of said lottery or lotteries, and
within sixty days after the drawing thereof, apply so much of the
money arising therefrom, as may be necessary to the payment of
the prizes drawn therein to the adventurers to whom they may be
due, and the necessary expenses incurred in the management thereof,
and conditioned also for the faithful application of the sum received
by them out of the said lottery or lotteries, to the uses and
purposes herein before mentioned, and according to the true intent
and meaning of this act. |
Bond to be lodged
in clerk's office. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said bond shall
be given to
and in the name of the state of Maryland, and lodged in the office
of the clerk of Baltimore county, and upon said bond, or an authenticated
office copy thereof, suit or suits may be instituted for
any breach or non-compliance with the condition thereof. |
Vacancies, how to
be supplied. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That upon the refusal
or neglect of
any of the above named managers to execute the trust in him or
them reposed, the vacancy may be filled by the master and wardens
of Washington Lodge, No. 3.
See 1817, ch. 210. |
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Passed Feb. 3, 1817. |
CHAP. CLXXXVII.
An Act relating to Writs of Certiorari in the cases therein mentioned.
Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 335. |
Party obtaining
writ in certain cases
to give bond,
&c. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
upon the allowance of any writ of certiorari for the removal
of the |
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