| 1804.
CHAP. 53.
Passed Jan. 12, 1805.
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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. LIII.
An act to prevent the erection of Booths within one mile of any
Methodist
Meeting-House in Talbot County during Quarterly
Meeting.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 607. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is respectfully represented to this general
assembly;
by the Methodist Society of Talbot county, that sundry persons set
up booths, and sell liquor and other things, near their meeting-houses
during divine service, whereby those places intended for
solemn worship are converted into places of traffic, debauchery and
immorality, to the very great disturbance of the society; therefore, |
Spirituous liquors
not to be sold within
a mile of any
Methodist meeting
house. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
whosoever, from and after the passage of this act, shall erect a
booth for the purpose of selling, or shall sell or dispose of, any
spirituous liquor, within one mile of any Methodist meeting-house
in Talbot county, during the quarterly meeting of said Methodist
society, shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten pounds current money
of this state, one half thereof to be applied to the use of the county,
the other half to him or them who shall sue for the same, to be recovered
in like manner as other fines and forfeitures. |
Not to apply to
ordinary keepers. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing in this
act shall be construed
to hinder any ordinary-keeper, or licensed retailer, from selling
liquors and other things in their respective dwelling-houses or
stores. |
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Passed Jan. 12, 1805. |
CHAP. LIV.
An Supplement to an act, (a) entitled, An act for the regulation
of Denton,
in Caroline County, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 608.
(a) 1802, ch. 25, (the title misquoted.) |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of the inhabitants of Denton, in Caroline county, that they
experience great inconvenience for the want of sufficient streets,
lanes and alleys, in said village; therefore, |
Commissioners to
lay off ten acres of
land. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for the commissioners of Denton, or a
majority of them, or their successors, to survey and lay off ten
acres of land, adjoining said village, in addition to forty acres directed
to be laid off by the original act to which this is a supplement,
and in the same manner as is directed to be laid off in said original
act. |
To lay off a quarter
of an acre for
a school-house. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for the
said commissioners, or a majority of them, or their successors, to
survey and lay off one quarter of an acre of land from the public
square in Denton, for the purpose of building a school-house thereon;
that is to say, the said one quarter of an acre of land shall be
laid off from the north-west corner of said public square, and when
they have so done, and marked and bounded the same as they are
directed to mark and bound the lot by the said original act to which
this is a supplement, and shall return a plot of said lot so surveyed
and laid off, with a certificate, to the clerk of the county court,
to
be recorded by him as part of the plot of said village, then the right
of the said one quarter of an acre of land shall be and is hereby fully
vested in the said commissioners, or a majority of them, or their
successors, for the purpose of a school in Denton. |
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