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JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
shillings and six-pence in any one year, for every hundred pounds
of property within the said city and the precincts thereof, as the
said corporation may think proper. |
1802.
CHAP. 89. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That an act of assembly
passed at November
session, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, *
entitled, An act to enable the corporation of the city of Annapolis to
lay a tax on property within the said city and the precincts thereof,
be and is hereby repealed. |
An act repealed.
* Ch. 115. |
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CHAP. XC.
An Act authorising a Lottery to raise a sum of money for the purpose
of finishing the Protestant Episcopal Church in Elizabeth-Town,
in Washington County. Lib. JG. No.
4, fol. 299. |
Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of the vestry of All-Saint's parish, in Elizabeth-town, in
Washington county, that the said church in said county is in an unfinished
state, and have prayed that a law may pass authorising a
lottery to raise a sum of money, not exceeding six hundred dollars,
for the purpose of finishing said church; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for Nathaniel Rochester, Richard Pindell,
Ignatius Taylor, Robert Hughes and Otho H. Williams, or a
majority of them, to propose a scheme or schemes of a lottery, for
raising a sum of money, not exceeding six hundred dollars, and
to sell and dispose of the tickets thereof, provided the said Nathaniel
Rochester, Richard Pindell, Ignatius Taylor, Robert Hughes
and Otho H. Williams, or 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 three 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 church in Elizabeth-town, in
Washington county, to be finished in the best manner the sum of
money raised by said lottery will admit. |
Scheme may be
proposed--bond
to be given. |
3. 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
bond, or any office copy thereof, suit or suits may be instituted
against the obligors therein, or any of them, or their legal representative,
for any breach or non-compliance with the condition of
the same. |
Bond to be lodged
in Clerk's office. |
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CHAP. XCI.
An Act to open and make public a Road from Norwood' s Ferry, on
Patapsco River, to intersect the main Road leading from
Elk-Ridge
Landing to the Falls of Patapsco. Lib. JG.
No. 4, fol. 300. |
Passed Jan. 8, 1803. |
WHEREAS Edward Norwood, by his petition to this
general assembly,
hath set forth, that he is seized in fee, as tenant in common
with Samuel Norwood, of a ferry situate and lying on Patapsco
river, near Elk-Ridge landing, leading from Baltimore to the |
Preamble. |
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