| 1803.
CHAP. 105.
Passed Jan. 7, 1804. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. CV.
An Act for the benefit of Joseph Douglass, of Kent County.
Lib. JG.
No. 4, fol. 514. |
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Passed Jan. 7, 1804. |
CHAP. CVI.
A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act to repair the Old or to
build
a New Poor-House in Anne-Arundel County. Lib.
JG. No. 4, fol.
515. |
Preamble.
* Ch. 75. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that the
commissioners appointed for Anne-Arundel county by the act of
November session, eighteen hundred and one, * entitled, An act to
repair the old or to build a new poor-house in Anne-Arundel county,
have agreed for and purchased an house, and tract of land adjoining,
for a poor-house in said county, and doubts may arise
whether the proceedings of the said commissioners are conformable
to, and consistent with, the aforesaid act; |
Proceedings of
commissioners
confirmed. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the proceedings and contract of the said commissioners of Anne-Arundel
county, in the purchase made of William Caton of the
house and land called Strawberry Hill for a poor-house for the said
county, be and the same are hereby confirmed and rendered valid,
and that the levy court of the said county be and they are hereby
authorised and directed to levy and assess on the said county the
sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, to complete the payment for
the said property so purchased. |
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CHAP. CVII.
An Act to authorise a Lottery to raise a sum of money for the purpose
of repairing the Protestant Episcopal Church in All-Hallows
Parish,
in Anne-Arundel County. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol.
515. |
Scheme may be
proposed—bond to
be given. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for William Brogden, William Steuart,
Samuel C. Watkins, Jonathan Sellman, Leonard Sellman, Osborn
S. Harwood, James McCulloch, Richard Hall of Edward, and Joseph
Harwood, or a majority of them, to propose a scheme or schemes of
a lottery for raising a sum of money, not exceeding two thousand dollars,
and to sell and dispose of the tickets thereof; provided the said
William Brogden, William Steuart, Samuel C. Watkins, Jonathan
Sellman, Leonard Sellman, Osborn S. Harwood, James McCulloch,
Richard Hall, of Edward, and Joseph Harwood, 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 four thousand dollars, conditioned
that they ill well and truly apply so much of the money
arising therefrom, within six months after the drawing of the said lottery
shall be completed, as will satisfy the fortunate adventurers for
prizes drawn by them, and after deducting the necessary expenses
incurred in the said lottery, shall within twelve months from the
time the drawing of said lottery shall be completed, cause the balance
of the money raised by said lottery to be applied to the repairing
of the Protestant Episcopal Church in All-Hallows parish,
in Anne-Arundel county, and to the enclosing of the burial-ground
of said church, in the best manner the said sum of money will admit. |
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