| 1817.
CHAP. 210.
No further scheme
to be proposed, &c. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when either of the
two lotteries
excepted in the original act to which this is a supplement, or either
of the three lotteries mentioned in this act, shall have drawn any
scheme of a lottery, it shall not be lawful for the managers of such
lottery to propose any further scheme of a lottery, but the drawing
of one lottery by the managers of either of the aforesaid lotteries
shall be a full execution of all the powers vested in such managers
by this or any other act of assembly heretofore passed. |
Penalty for appropriating
money in
any other way
than authorised
by law. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if either of the
lotteries herein before
named, or the schemes thereof not at this time actually sold, or
if any other lottery or lotteries heretofore authorised, or the schemes
thereof, shall be hereafter sold in the whole or in part, or in any
manner disposed of, whereby the sums authorised to be raised, or
any part thereof, could be applied or appropriated to any other object,
use or purpose, than such as are declared by the law authorising
such lotteries respectively, or with intent to appropriate or
apply the same to any other object or purpose than authorised as
aforesaid, every such sale is hereby declared to be absolutely void,
and every manager of a lottery making or assenting, to such sale,
shall forfeit and pay one thousand dollars, and every person making
or concerned in any purchase prohibited by this section, shall
forfeit and pay five thousand dollars, to be recovered by indictment,
the one half to the informers, the other for the use of this state,
in
the court of the county where the offence shall happen, and if in
the city of Baltimore the recovery shall be had in Baltimore city
court. |
Lotteries may be
consolidated. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That whenever the managers
of two or
more lotteries, now authorised to be drawn, may agree thereto, they
may and are hereby authorised to consolidate the lotteries respectively
of which they are managers, and to agree that the managers
of any one of said lotteries may propose a scheme of a lottery to
raise the several sums authorised to be raised by all of said lotteries,
or to select from all the managers of said lotteries a board of
managers, to propose a scheme for raising the several sums so authorised
to be raised by said lotteries; and upon the managers of
said lotteries, or a majority of each, stating to the commissioners,
in writing, that they have agreed to form such a consolidation,
with the names of the mangers agreed upon to propose a scheme
of, and conduct such consolidated lottery, it shall be lawful for such
managers, so selected, to enter into a bond to the state of Maryland,
in the usual form of lottery bonds, in a penalty equal to the
joint penalties prescribed for state bonds to be given by the managers
of each of said lotteries, and upon so giving bond, said managers
so selected shall be and are hereby authorised, to propose the
scheme of a lottery to raise the whole sum authorised to be raised
by each of said lotteries so consolidated, and shall be entitled to
draw such consolidated lottery in such order or time or succession
as the first of said lotteries so consolidated would have been entitled
to draw if no such consolidation had taken place, and the
drawing of such consolidate lottery shall be considered as the execution
of the whole powers granted to the managers of each of the
said lotteries, so consolidated, to draw the same; and the said managers,
so selected, and having given bond as aforesaid, shall have
all the power and authority, under the restriction herein contained, |
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