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CHAP. 87. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
said lottery, shall apply the residue of money so raised to the
finishing the house intended for the use of said academy, and the
purchase of necessary apparatus for the use of said academy, as the
trustees for the time being may think most to the advantage of said
academy |
Road 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 Somerset county, there to be recorded, and upon such bond,
or any office copy thereof, suit or suits may be instituted against
the obligors therein, or any of them, or their legal representatives,
for any breach or non-compliance with the condition of the same. |
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Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
CHAP. LXXXVIII.
An Act authorise the drawing of certain Lotteries within the City
of Baltimore. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 297. |
Preamble.
* 1796, ch. 68. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of several religious societies in the city of Baltimore, that
their funds are inadequate to carry into effect the laudable purposes
contemplated by the petitioners, and praying that a law may
pass, authorising them to raise by lottery certain sums of money,
to enable them to finish their respective churches: And whereas
by
an act, * entitled, An act to erect Baltimore-town, in Baltimore
county, into a city, and to incorporate the inhabitants thereof, the
drawing of lotteries within the said city is confined to special purposes;
therefore, |
Mayor and City
Council may authorise
lotteries
for certain purposes. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act it shall and may be lawful
for the mayor and city council of Baltimore to authorise the elders,
deacons and trustees, of the German Reformed Congregation, the
trustees f the Roman Catholic Church, and the trustees of the Baptist
Congregation, (on Fell's Point,) respectively, to institute a
scheme or schemes of a lottery or lotteries within the said city,
and to dispose of tickets therein, for the purposes contemplated by
this act, under such limitations as the mayor and city council shall
by ordinance direct. |
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Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
CHAP. LXXXIX.
An Act to enable the Corporation of the City of Annapolis to lay
a Tax
in Property within the said City and the Precinct thereof,
and to
repeal the Act of Assembly therein mentioned.
Lib. JG. No. 4,
fol. 298. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the memorial
of the mayor, recorder, aldermen and common council, of
the city of Annapolis, that the annual ordinary expenses of the corporation
of the city of Annapolis, for the support of the mayor's
court and its proper officers, and the necessary charge of repairing
the streets, supporting the lamps, and maintaining watchmen, require
considerable sums of money, and the funds belonging to said
city are very trivial, and greatly inadequate to the annual expenses
thereof; therefore, |
Corporation authorised
to lay a
tax. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the corporation of the said city of Annapolis, and their successors,
be and they are hereby authorised to lay a tax, not exceeding seven |
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