| 1805.
CHAP. 86.
Passed Jan. 25, 1806. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. LXXXVI.
An Act to establish permanent Salaries for the Judges of the Six
Judicial
Districts in this State. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 121.
See ch. 65. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS by the thirtieth section of the declaration
of rights it
is declared, that salaries liberal, but not profuse, ought to be secured
to the judges, during the continuance of their commissions; therefore, |
Salaries to the
judges. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
each chief judge of the several judicial districts in this state shall
receive, for his salary, the sum of two thousand two hundred dollars
per annum, and each associate judge of the said several judicial
districts shall receive, for his salary, the sum of fourteen hundred
dollars per annum; and the treasurer of the western shore shall
be and he is hereby authorised and directed, to pay quarterly, out
of any unappropriated money which may be in the treasury, to each
of the said chief judges, and to each of the said associate judges,
or his order, the salary which he is entitled to receive by law. |
| No other compensation. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said judges
shall receive no
other or further compensation than what is allowed in this act, any
thing in any law to the contrary notwithstanding. |
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Passed Jan. 25, 1806. |
CHAP. LXXXVII.
An Act to authorise the drawing of a Lottery for the benefit of
Saint-Mary's
College,
in Baltimore County. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 122. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it has been represented to this general
assembly, by
the petition of William DuBourg, president of St. Mary's College,
in behalf of himself and his associates, the vice-president and professors
in said college, that they have incurred a heavy debt in the
establishment of their seminary, by the purchase of the site, and
erection of the buildings necessary for the accommodation of their
pupils, and that their funds are inadequate to the discharge thereof,
unless assisted by legislative aid, they therefore pray for permission
to propose the scheme of a lottery to raise a sum of money
for paying off the said debt; and the prayer thereof appearing reasonable,
therefore, |
Scheme of a lottery
may be proposed
—bond to be
given.
Proviso. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the Reverend William DuBourg, the Reverend John Tessier, Luke
Tiernan, Robert Walsh, senior, William Lorman, Alexander
McKim, Henry Wilson, Samuel Sterett, James McHenry, Samuel
Hollingsworth, Lewis DuBourg and Philip Laurenson, or a majority
of them, be authorised to propose a scheme of a lottery for
raising a sum of money, not exceeding thirty thousand dollars,
and dispose of the tickets in the said lottery, as well in the city of
Baltimore as in any other part of the state, any law to the contrary
notwithstanding, and shall proceed to draw the said lottery;
Provided, that the said William DuBourg, John Tessier, Luke
Tiernan, Robert Walsh, senior, William Lorman, Alexander
McKim, Henry Wilson, Samuel Sterett, James McHenry, Samuel
Hollingsworth, Lewis DuBourg and Philip Laurenson, or a 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 joint and several bond to the state of Maryland, in the
penalty of sixty thousand dollars, conditioned that they will well |
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