MARYLAND, Sc.
At a Session of the General Assembly of Maryland, begun
and held at the City of Annapolis, on Monday, the
7th of November, in the year of our
Lord 1803, and
ended the 7th of January 1804.
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HIS EXCELLENCY
ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR,
THE FOLLOWING LAWS WERE ENACTED,
TO WIT:
CHAPTER I.
An Act to settle and ascertain the Salary of the Members of the
Council
for the ensuing year. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 355. |
1803.
CHAP. 1.
Passed Dec. 31. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
each member of the council shall be entitled to receive, for the ensuing
year, the sum of two hundred pounds current money for his
salary. |
Salary ascertained. |
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CHAP. II.
An Act for the relief of Thomas Parvin, an Insolvent Debtor of
Frederick County. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 355.
This act provided for the relief of
the person therein named, by application to
the Chancellor. Under the acts of 1804, ch. 110, and 1805, ch. 110,
and other
acts, the applications were to be made to the county courts. This
act therefore
has ceased to have any operation. |
Passed Dec. 31. |
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CHAP. III.
An Act authorising a Lottery to raise a sum of money for finishing
a House of Public Worship in Baltimore County.
Lib. JG. No. 4,
fol. 358. |
Passed Dec. 31. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Baltimore county, that they are unable
by subscription to finish an house of public worship which
they have erected for the use of the regular baptist, methodist,
presbyterians and episcopalians, and free for the use of all denomination
fo christians that come recommended, and have prayed that
a law may pass authorising a lottery to finish the same; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for Benjamin Corbin, Richard Brown,
John Myers, Nicholas Brown and Joshua Cockey, or a majority
of them, to propose a scheme of a lottery for raising a sum of money,
not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars, and to sell and dispose
of the tickets thereof; provided that the said Benjamin Corbin,
Richard Brown, John Myers, Nicholas Brown and Joshua Cockey,
or such 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 |
Scheme to be proposed
--bond to be
given. |
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