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CHAP. 33.
Scheme to be proposed. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
David Smith, Tobias Rudulph, Samuel Briscoe, William Alexander,
John Groome, John King, James Partridge, William Hollingsworth
and George Mitchell, or a majority of them, be and they are
hereby authorised to propose a scheme of a lottery for raising a
sum of money, not exceeding one thousand dollars, for the purposes
aforesaid, and to sell and dispose of the tickets therein. |
| Bond to be given. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said David
Smith, Tobias
Rudulph, Samuel Briscoe, William Alexander, John Groome,
John King, James Partridge, William Hollingsworth and George
Mitchell, before they proceed to the sale of any ticket or tickets
in said lottery, shall give bond to the state of Maryland,
in the penalty of three thousand dollars, conditioned that they
will well and truly apply the money arising therefrom, within
ninety days after the drawing thereof, to the payment of the prizes
drawn therein to the adventurers to whom they shall be due, and
the necessary expense incurred in the management thereof, and
within six months thereafter shall apply the residue, or so much
thereof as shall be necessary, to the purchase of a fire engine, and
whatever balance may be remaining, to the improvement of the
streets of said town. |
To be lodged in
clerk's office. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said bond shall
be lodged in
the clerk's office of Cecil county, to be there recorded, and upon
such bond, or any office copy thereof, suit or suits may be instituted
for any breach or non compliance with the condition thereof. |
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Passed Jan. 12, 1805. |
CHAP. XXXIV.
An Additional Supplement to an act, entitled, * An act to improve
and
repair the Streets in Frederick-Town, in Frederick County,
and for
other purposes therein mentioned. Lib. JG.
No. 4, fol. 562.
By 1816, ch. 74, the powers vested
in the commissioners under this act have
ceased. |
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Passed Jan. 12, 1805. |
CHAP. XXXV.
An Act to encourage the destruction of Crows in the several Counties
therein mentioned. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 563. |
Allowance for
crows heads. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That if
any person residing in Caroline, Talbot and Calvert (a) counties,
shall bring to any justice of the peace of the county in which such
person shall reside, the head or heads of any crow or crows, such
person shall, for every such head, be allowed in the county levy of
said county the sum of ten cents, and the justices of the peace before
whom such head or heads shall be brought, is hereby required
to give the person bringing the same a certificate thereof, and cause
the said head or heads to be burnt or otherwise destroyed.
(a) This
act repealed as to Calvert county, by 1807, ch. 71. |
| Proviso. |
2. PROVIDED NEVERTHELESS, AND BE IT ENACTED,
That no person
whatsoever shall be entitled for any allowance for any such head
or heads, without first making oath, or affirmation, as the case may
be, that such crow or crows was or were killed in the county where
such certificate is applied for, and that no certificate hath been obtained
from any other justice of the peace for the same; and that
it shall be the duty of each and every justice of the peace before
whom such head or heads may be brought by virtue of this or any |
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