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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. XLIII.
An Act authorising a Lottery to raise a sum of money for repairing
Shrewsbury Church in Kent County. Lib. JG.
No. 4, fol. 395.
Supplements, 1805, ch. 76. June 1809, ch. 13. |
1803.
CHAP. 43. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of the vestry of Shrewsbury parish in Kent county, that
the parish church, and the enclosure of the burial-ground,
are very much out of repair, and that by reason of debts heretofore
contracted by the vestry in making repairs thereon their funds are
inadequate to carry into effect their intentions of completing the
repairs on the said church and burial-ground, and have prayed that
a law may pas authorising a lottery to raise a sum of money for
the above purposes; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for Oliver Smith, Doctor William Briscoe,
George Yeates, Jacob Freeman, James Blackistone, James Salisbury
and Edward Wright, (a) or a majority of them, to propose
a scheme of a lottery for raising a sum of money, not exceeding
four thousand dollars, and to sell and dispose of the tickets thereof;
provided the said Oliver Smith, Doctor William Briscoe, George
Yeates, Jacob Freeman, James Blackistone, James Salisbury and
Edward Wright, or such majority of them as shall undertake to
act under this law, shall, before the sale or disposal of any tickets
in said lottery, give their bond to the state of Maryland, in the
penalty of ten thousand dollars, conditioned that they will faithfully
apply so much of the money arising therefrom, within six months
from the time the drawing the said lottery shall commence, as will
satisfy the fortunate adventurers for prizes drawn by them, and after
deducting the necessary expenses incurred in conducting said lottery,
shall pay over the residue of the money so raised to the vestry
of Shrewsbury parish in Kent county, who are hereby authorised
to receive the same, and to appropriate it in repairing the said
church and the enclosure of the burial-ground, and in the payment
of debts heretofore contracted for repairs on the said church, in
such manner as they may think proper.
(a) By 1805, ch. 76, other commissioners
appointed instead of Yeates and Salisbury,
whose appointments are vacated. |
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 Kent county, there to be recorded, and upon an office copy
of such bond, 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 of non-compliance with the condition thereof. |
Bond to be lodged
in clerk's office. |
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CHAP. XLIV.
An Act to establish a Market, and to build a Market-House, in the
Western Precincts of Baltimore, and for the regulation
of the same.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 396.
Supplements, 1805, ch. 19, and 1811, ch. 18. See 1817, ch. 148. |
Passed Jan. 7, 1804. |
WHEREAS the erecting a market-house in the western
precincts of
the city of Baltimore, will be attended with great convenience to
the inhabitants thereof, and to the inhabitants of Baltimore and
other counties, and the same has been prayed for by the petition of
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Preamble. |
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