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CHAP. 54.
* Ch. 18. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
Queen-Anne's county, passed November session, seventeen hundred
and ninety-six, * and that from and after the passage of this
act, no person shall be appointed a commissioner of Centre-Ville
who does not hold real property within the limits of said town above
the value of three hundred dollars. |
Court-house and
public ground vested,
in trust, in
commissioners. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the court house
and public ground
in said town shall be vested, in trust, in the commissioners, and
their successors, so far as to preserve the same, and to prevent
abuses and depredations thereon; and that they shall have power
and authority to cause to be removed so much of the earth in front
of the court-house as may be necessary for levelling and making
even the public ground, and to apply the earth so to be removed, or
so much thereof as may be necessary, for filling up and levelling
the public ground at the back of the court-house, and in such other
way as they may direct; and that the said commissioners shall be
authorised to cause a well to be made on the public ground in front
of the court-house, and therein to erect a pump if they shall think
necessary. |
Levy authorised. |
5. AND, whereas it is necessary that provision
should be made
to enable the commissioners to carry this section into effect, BE IT
ENACTED, that the justices of the levy court of Queen-Anne's
county be and they are hereby authorised and directed to levy on
the assessable property of said county, at the time of laying their
next county levy, the sum of two hundred dollars, which sum the
collector of the county shall collect as other county charges, and
pay to the said commissioners, or their order. |
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Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
CHAP. LV.
An Act authorising a Lottery to raise a sum of money for improving
the Streets of Elizabeth-Town, (a) in Washington
County. Lib. JG.
No. 4, fol. 260.
(a) The name changed to Hager's-Town by 1813, ch. 121. |
Managers appointed
--to propose a
scheme--to give
bond. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for Nathaniel Rochester, Adam Ott,
Otho Holland Williams, Jacob Harry and William Hyser, or a majority
of them, to propose a scheme or schemes of a lottery for raising
a sum of money not exceeding two thousand dollars, and to sell and
dispose of the tickets thereof; provided the said Nathaniel Rochester,
Adam Ott, Otho Holland Williams, Jacob Harry and William Hyser,
or such a majority of them as shall undertake to act under this law,
shall, 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 well and truly apply
so much of the money arising therefrom, within six months after
the drawing of said lottery shall commence, as will satisfy the
fortunate adventurers for prizes drawn by them, and after deducting
the necessary expenses incurred in said lottery, shall within
twelve months from the time the drawing of said lottery shall commence,
cause the said streets in Elizabeth town, in Washington
county, to be improved in the best manner the sum of money raised
by said lottery will admit. |
Bond to be lodged
in clerk's office. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of said commissioners,
before they act as such, to lodge such bond in the clerk's
office of Washington county, there to be recorded, and upon such |
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