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CHAP. 15. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
manner as may appear necessary to the aforesaid Doctor John
Cromwell, Samuel Owings, Bryan Philport, Doctor Thomas C.
Walker, Moses Brown, Kinsey John, John T. Worthington and
Robert N. Moale, or a majority of them, for the aforesaid purposes. |
Bond to be given
by managers. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, that before the said
Doctor John Cromwell,
Samuel Owings, Bryan Philport, Doctor Thomas C. Walker,
Moses Brown, Kinsey John, John T. Worthington and Robert
N. Moale, proceed to make sale of any ticket or tickets in the said
lottery, they shall give and execute a bond to the state of Maryland,
in the penalty of six thousand dollars, conditioned, that they
will well and truly conduct the drawing of said lottery, and apply
the money arising therefrom, within six months after the drawing
thereof, to the payment of the prizes drawn therein the the adventurers
to whom they shall be due, and the necessary expenses incurred
in the management thereof, and the residue to the repairing
of the said churches, and the reimbursement of the said vestry. |
To be lodged in
clerk's office. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said bond shall
be lodged in
the office of the clerk fo Baltimore county, to be there recorded,
and upon such bond, or any office copy, suit or suits may be instituted
for any breach or non-compliance with the condition thereof. |
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Passed Dec. 31. |
CHAP. XVI.
An Act authorising the Justices of the Orphans Courts to take Sheriff's
Bonds. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 205. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS great inconveniencies have been experienced
in many
of the counties in this state in taking sheriff's bonds, in which a
judge of the courts, as now established, does not reside; for remedy
whereof, |
Justices of orphans
courts may |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall be lawful for the justices of the orphans courts, or any two
of them, in their respective counties, either in court or out of court,
to take sheriff's bonds (a), in the same manner as the chief justice
or associate justices were heretofore empowered to take the
same (b), or as a judge of the courts as now established is authorised
to do (c); and the bond, when so taken, shall be lodged with
the clerk of the county court of the county in which the same may
have been taken, and shall by him be recorded among the records
of his county, and upon such bond, or any office copy thereof, suit
or suits may be instituted against the obligor or obligors.
(a) By 1815, ch. 62, they may
also qualify the sheriff.
(b) See 1794, ch. 51, s. 8. (c) 1805,
ch. 65, s. 13. |
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Passed Dec. 31.
* 1804, ch. 18. |
CHAP. XVII.
An Act supplementary to an act, * entitled, An act to incorporate
the
Stockholders in the Union Bank of Maryland. Lib.
TH. No. 1,
fol. 205. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS the president and directors of the Union
Bank of
Maryland, on behalf of themselves and the other stockholders in
the said bank, have represented to the general assembly of Maryland,
that they experience much inconvenience from that part of
the second fundamental article of the act incorporating the stockholders
in the Union Bank of Maryland, which exclude directors |
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