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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall also be
the duty of any
associate justice or justice of the peace of this state, on complaint
made, information given, or on his own view, of any person offending
as aforesaid, to issue his warrant to the sheriff, deputy sheriff,
or any constable of the county, commanding him immediately to take
the body of the person so offending, and to have the said offender
brought before the said associate justice or justice of the peace, or
any other associate justice of justice of the peace for the county in
which the said offence shall be committed, which said justice shall
cause the person so offending to enter into a recognizance, in the
penalty of four hundred dollars, with such security as the said justice
shall approve of, for his personal appearance at the next county
court to be holden in and for the said county, and it shall be the
duty of the justices taking the recognizance aforesaid to make return
thereof to the clerk of the county court of his county before the next
meeting of the said court. |
1803.
CHAP. 75.
And issue warrant
to sheriff to take
the body of person
offending. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the several county
courts in this
state shall give this act, and the act to which this is a supplement,
in charge to the several grand juries. |
Act to be given in
charge. |
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CHAP. LXXVI.
An Act authorising a Lottery for raising a sum of money for the
purchasing Ground, and building a Market-House thereon,
in the
Western Precincts of the City of Baltimore. Lib.
JG. No. 4, fol.
456. |
Passed Jan. 7, 1804. |
WHEREAS by the petition of sundry inhabitants of
the western
precincts of the city of Baltimore, it hath been prayed, that a law
may pass authorising certain persons to propose a scheme of a lottery
to raise a sum of money for purchasing ground, and erecting a
market-house thereon, in the western precincts of the city of Baltimore;
and the said prayer appearing reasonable, therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for Christopher Johnson, Ebenezer Finley,
Adam Walsh, Henry Stouffer, John Kennedy, George F. Warfield,
Daniel Lamott and William Jessop, or a majority of them, to
propose a scheme of a lottery for raising a sum of money, not exceeding
fifteen thousand dollars, and sell and dispose of tickets in
said lottery, as well in the city of Baltimore as in any other part
of this state, any law to the contrary notwithstanding, and are
hereby authorised to draw said lottery; Provided, that the said
Christopher
Johnson, Ebenezer Finley, Adam Walsh, Henry Stouffer,
John Kennedy, George F. Warfield, Daniel Lamott and William
Jessop, 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 thirty thousand dollars, conditioned that they will well and
truly apply so much of the money arising therefrom, within twelve
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 two years from the time the drawing of said lottery
shall commence, apply the money raised by such lottery to the purchase
of sufficient ground, and erecting a market-house thereon, in
the western precincts of the city of Baltimore as aforesaid. |
Scheme may be
proposed—bond to
be given.
Proviso. |
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