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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. CIV.
An Act to authorise the Elders and Trustees of the German Evangelical
Reformed Church in Baltimore County to draw a
Lottery within
the City of Baltimore. Lib. TH. No.
1, fol. 160. |
1805.
CHAP. 104
Passed Jan. 27, 1806. |
WHEREAS by an act, * entitled, An act to erect Baltimore-town,
in Baltimore county, into a city, and to incorporate the inhabitants
thereof, the drawing of lotteries within the said city is confined to
special purposes; therefore, |
Preamble.
* 1796, ch. 68. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful
for the mayor and city council of Baltimore to authorise the aforesaid
elders and trustees to institute a scheme of a lottery within the
said city, consisting of one or more classes, and to dispose of tickets
in such lottery, for the purposes aforesaid, under such limitations
as the mayor and city council shall by ordinance direct and
appoint, any thing in the said act to the contrary notwithstanding;
provided, that not more than twelve thousand dollars be raised by
any scheme in virtue of this act. |
Mayor and city
council to authorise
elders to institute
a scheme. |
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CHAP. CV.
A Supplement to an act, † entitled, An act to incorporate
a Company
to make a Turnpike Road to lead from the Cross Roads
near Richard
Caton's Limelkiln, in Baltimore County, nearly in the
direction of
Jones's Falls, to the City of Baltimore. Lib.
TH. No. 1, fol. 161. |
Passed Jan. 25, 1806.
† 1804, ch. 91. |
WHEREAS it has been represented to this general
assembly, by
the petition of the president, directors and stockholders, of the Falls
turnpike company, that he location as established by the commissioners
named in the act to which this is a supplement may be more
straight, less expensive, and entirely out of the way of freshes, by
altering the same; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the said road shall, in crossing the Bare Hills, be carried from a
gum tree standing in the field of George Stephenson's, at the foot
of the said Bare Hills, and from thence, curving up the said hill, to
a white oak near the top thereof, and thence to a stake fixed by the
commissioners on the descent, and on the north side of the said
Bare Hills. |
Direction of road
in crossing the
Bare Hills. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said road shall,
when it enters
the land of Thomas Johnson, cross Jones's Falls at Monk's old mill
dam, and pass through the woodland of Thomas Johnson, on the
east side of Jones's Falls, to a large rock stone standing in the
corner of Nicholas Ruxton Moore's field, thence on the high ground
to a stake standing on the east side of Thomas Johnson's meadow,
thence to a market white oak standing in the woods of said Johnson,
thence to the west of a large white oak standing on the south
side of the old court road leading to Joppa, thence on the high
grounds, and in a straight line, through the field of Phineas Hunt,
thence through the corner of Job Hunt's field to the west side of a
bounded stone, the beginning of a tract of land called Cockey's
Trust, then on the land of Richard Caton to the cross roads, at
said Caton's limekiln. |
Direction when it
enters land of
Thomas Johnson. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said Falls
turnpike company
shall, whenever it is required by Phineas Hunt, cause an arch to
be turned under the road in the field of Phineas Hunt, sufficiently |
To cause an arch
to be turned under
the road in
the field of Phineas
Hunt. |
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