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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for the sheriff of Baltimore county, and
he is hereby directed and required, to perform the duties required
of him to be performed by the act to which this is a supplement, at
any time previous to the first day of August, eighteen hundred and
five. |
1804.
CHAP. 17.
Sheriff to perform
duties required
by former act. |
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CHAP. XVIII.
An Act authorising a Lottery to raise a sum of money for improving
the Navigation of Corsica Creek, in Queen-Anne's
County.
Lib.
JG. No. 4, fol. 543.
A Supplement 1817, ch. 185. |
Passed Jan. 5, 1805. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for Joseph H. Nicholson, Richard T.
Earle, Henry Darden, William Chambers, William Carmichael,
Henry Pratt and James Clayland, junior, (a) or
a majority of them,
to propose a scheme or schemes of a lottery, to raise a sum of money,
not exceeding three thousand dollars, and to sell and dispose
of
the tickets thereof; provided the said Joseph H. Nicholson, Richard
T. Earle, Henry Darden, William Chambers, William Carmichael,
Henry Pratt and James Clayland, junior, or such majority of them
as shall undertake to act, 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 six thousand dollars, conditioned that they
will
well and truly apply so much of the money arising therefrom, within
six months after drawing 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 said lottery
shall have ended, cause the said money to be laid out and expended
in clearing, deepening and improving, the navigation of Corsica
creek, in Queen-Anne's county, in the best manner the sum raised
will admit.
(a) By 1817, ch. 185, other
managers added to those here named, who are alive.
and authorised to raise 15,000 dollars, on giving bond
in the penalty of 30,000
dollars. |
Scheme to be
proposed—bond to
be given. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of said commissioners,
or such majority as may act, before they act as such,
to lodge such bond in the clerk's office of Queen-Anne's county,
there to be recorded, and upon such bond, or upon 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. |
Bond to be lodged
in clerk's office. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the drawing
of said lottery
shall not have commenced 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, or the holder
of any 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. |
Bond may be
sued. |
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