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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
for every day they shall respectively attend to the discharge of the
duties required by this act. |
1805.
CHAP. 75. |
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CHAP. LXXVI.
A Supplement to an act *, entitled, An act authorising a Lottery
to
raise a sum of money for repairing Shrewsbury Church,
in Kent
County. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 97. |
Passed Jan. 25, 1806. |
WHEREAS by an act of assembly which passed in the
year eighteen
hundred and three, entitled, An act authorising a lottery to
raise a sum of money for repairing Shrewsbury Church, in Kent
county, certain commissioners therein named were authorised to
propose a scheme of a lottery for raising a sum of money for the repairs
of the parish church, the enclosure of the burial-ground, and
payment of debts before contracted for the repairs of said church:
And whereas it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition
of the present vestrymen of Shrewsbury parish, that the commissioners
named in the said act consented to act, and complied
with the provisions of the said act; that they proceeded, at a considerable
expense, to propose a scheme of a lottery, to advertise the
same, and to dispose of the tickets, but that in a short time thereafter
two of the commissioners appointed by the said act, to wit,
Oliver Smith and Jacob Freeman, were attacked with severe bodily
infirmity, and have since died, and that one other of the said commissioners,
to wit, George Yeates, removed from the county, and
that another of the said commissioners, to wit, James Salisbury, became
a member of the methodist society, so that there now remains
only three of the original commissioners, to wit. William Briscoe,
James Blakiston and Edward Wright, members of the said church,
who not constituting a majority of the said commissioners, are incapable
of conducting the business of said lottery, agreeably to the
provisions of the original act, and have prayed that a supplement
to the said act may pass, revoking the appointments of the said
George Yeates and James Salisbury, and to fill up the vacancies occasioned
by the deaths of the said Oliver Smith and Jacob Freeman;
which appearing reasonable to this general assembly, therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the appointment of the said George Yeates, and of the said James
Salisbury, two of the commissioners appointed in the original act to
which this is a supplement, be and the same are hereby vacated, and
that Edward Eubanks, William Spencer, Benjamin Massey and
John Luthrin, together with the said William Briscoe, and James
Blakiston and Edward Wright, be, and they and each of them are,
hereby appointed commissioners for the purpose contemplated by
the said original act, and all the powers vested in the commissioners
appointed by the said original act be and they are hereby vested
in the commissioners above named, or a majority of them, in as
full and ample manner as if they had been appointed by the said
original act; Provided, that before the said commissioners herein
named shall proceed to act as such, they shall enter into such bond as
is required by the second section in the said original act, which said
bond shall be recorded in the clerk's office of Kent county, and upon
an office copy thereof, a suit or suits may be instituted against
the obligors therein, or any of them, or their or any of their legal |
New commissioners
appointed.
Proviso. |
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