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CHAP. 40. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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 well in said town to be deepened and widened in the best
manner the sum of money raised by the said lottery will admit. |
Bond to be lodged
in clerk's office. |
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 Frederick 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, or any of
their legal representatives, for any breach or non-compliance with
the condition of the same. |
If lottery is not
drawn in eighteen
months suit may
be commenced
against obligors. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the said lottery
shall not be
drawn within eighteen months from the time of proposing the
scheme of said lottery, it shall be lawful for any person who may
have purchased a ticket or tickets therein, to commence a suit
against the obligor or obligors named in the bond given as aforesaid
for the recovery of the money paid for such ticket or tickets,
on demand being made and not complied with. |
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Passed Jan. 7, 1804. |
CHAP. XLI.
An Act for the relief of Caleb Summers, of Montgomery County.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 392.
See note under ch. 2. |
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Passed Dec. 31. |
CHAP. XLII.
An Act to prevent Swine from going at large in Taney-Town,
in Frederick
County. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 395. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of the inhabitants of Taney-Town, in Frederick county, that
great inconveniencies and injuries have resulted from the going at
large of swine and geese in said town; for prevention whereof, |
Geese and swine
going at large in
Taney-town may
be seized and impounded. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for the constable of the hundred to seize
or impound any geese or swine, the property of any inhabitant of
said town, he shall find going at large therein; and it shall be the
duty of said constable so seizing and impounding, immediately to
set up notice thereof in the most public places of said town for at
least three days, and to insert the marks and description of such
geese or swine in said notices, and if the same are not reclaimed
within three days after seizure and impounding, and the expenses
of impounding and keeping, to be allowed by a justice of the peace,
be paid, together with the sum of twenty-five cents for every hog or
goose, that the same shall be publicly sold by the said constable,
giving three days notice in writing, set up as aforesaid, of the
time and place of such sale, and the proceeds of such sale shall be
first applied to the expense of impounding and keeping them, and
the surplus, the one half thereof shall be paid to the constable, and
the other half shall be paid over to the supervisor of the road in
said hundred, and by him applied towards the mending and repairing
the streets in said town, to be laid out under the direction of
the said supervisor of the road in said hundred. |
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