| 1817.
CHAP. 153.
Tolls may be increased. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said president
and directors
for the time being, shall have full power and authority to increase
the tolls allowed to them by the said act, and its several supplements,
as much as they may deem proper, provided that they shall not be
more than double in amount in any of the cases provided for by
said laws. |
| Fines may be imposed. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the president and
directors shall
have fill power and authority, from time to time, to fix and impose
such fines on persons passing over their bridge, as shall be regulated
by rules to be by them printed and affixed at the entrances of said
bridge, provided said fines shall in no case for a single offence exceed
the sum of twenty-five dollars. |
| How to be recovered. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all fines that
may be imposed by
said president and directors under the provisions of this act, they
the said president and directors may recover by a common warrant,
in the name of the president and directors as aforesaid, before a single
justice of the peace either in Harford or Cecil county, and it
shall be sufficient that the offence was committed on the said bridge
to authorise the rendition of judgment in either of the counties
aforesaid. |
Suits for recovery
of arrearages. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when any suit hath
been or shall
hereafter be brought in any court of this state, by the said president
and directors, for the recovery of any arrearages due from subscribers,
for their capital stock, it shall be sufficient for the said
president and directors to declare for money had and received, and
give the original act, to which this is a supplement, together with
its several supplements, and the special matter in evidence; and that
in all suit or suits already brought , or hereafter to be brought, by
the said president and directors, the defendant or defendants, or
either of them, may upon the general issue give in evidence any
matter or thing that could have been well pleaded in bar to the
said action, any law or usage to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. |
Punishment for
burning bridge. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person or
persons shall
wilfully and feloniously set fire to, or burn, any part of said bridge,
he, she or they, as the case may be, shall be deemed and taken to
be guilty of arson, and upon being thereof convict shall suffer such
punishment as is or may be provided by law for persons guilty of
arson. |
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Passed Feb. 9, 1818. |
CHAP. CLIV.
An Act to regulate Lotteries.
Lib. TH. No. 6, fol. 80.
Supplements, ch. 210; and 1818, ch. 179. |
Lotteries heretofore
authorised,
proceedings relative
thereto.
Proviso. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
in all cases where lotteries have been heretofore authorised, under
which power is given to raise a particular sum of money by one or
more lotteries, and the managers may have drawn a lottery or lotteries,
the scheme of which purported to raise the sum authorised
to be raised, that in all such cases the power and authority given
to raise money thereby, be and the said is hereby considered as
completed, and the power to draw any other lottery or lotteries,
under the same authority, be and the same is hereby declared at an
end, and the act authorising the same is repealed; Provided, that
the prohibition in this section contained shall not extend to the Surgical |
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