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CHAP. 68. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
thereof, and that part lying in Washington county, by the levy
court thereof. |
Vacancies, how to
be filled. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if the commissioners
above
named, or any of them, should die, resign, or refuse to act, the
governor is hereby authorised and required to fill up such vacancy. |
Commissioners
authorised to contract
for opening
any given distance
of said road. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
be authorised
to contract with any person or persons for opening or completing
any given distance of the said road, should they of opinion that
it would be advantageous to do so; and that the presence or attendance
of any one commissioner shall be sufficient to see to the proper
application or expenditure of the money hereby granted for the
opening and improving of the same. |
Scheme of a lottery
may proposed
—managers to
bond. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for
William McMahon, John B. Beall, Jonathan Cox, John Ryne and
Thomas Blair, or a majority of them, to propose a scheme of a lottery
for raising a sum of money, not exceeding twelve hundred dollars,
and to sell and dispose of the tickets thereof; provided the said
managers, or such majority of them as shall untertake to act under
this law, shall, before the sale or disposal of any ticket or tickets
in said lottery, give their bond to the state of Maryland, in the
penalty of three thousand dollars, conditioned that they will well
and truly apply, or cause to be applied, so much of the money arising
therefrom, within six months from the time the drawing said
lottery shall commence, as will satisfy the fortunate adventurers for
prizes drawn by them, and after deducting the necessary expenses
incurred in said lottery, shall apply the residue of the money so
raised to the improving the road herein directed to be laid out, under
the direction of the said road commissioners. |
Bond to be lodged
in clerk's office. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the said
managers, before they act as such, to lodge such bond in the clerk's
office of Allegany county, there to be recorded, and upon such bond,
or any office copy thereof, suit or suits may be instituted against
the obligors therein, or any of them, or their legal representatives,
for any breach or non-compliance with the condition of the same. |
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Passed Jan. 4, 1807. |
CHAP. LXIX.
An Act annulling the Marriage of William Booth and Jane Booth.
Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 265. |
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Passed Jan. 4, 1807. |
CHAP. LXX.
An Act vesting certain powers in the President of the United States.
Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 266. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS a law passed the congress of the United
States on the
twenty-ninth day of March, eighteen hundred and six, directing
the laying out a road from Cumberland, on the Potomac river,
to the Ohio, and the consent of this state being necessary to the
opening the same, so far as it may run within her limits; therefore, |
Consent of state
given for opening
road from Cumberland
to Ohio. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall be lawful, and the full and entire consent of the state of Maryland
is hereby given, to the opening and improving the same, and
the president of the United States is hereby authorised to cause
the said road to be laid out, opened and improved, in such way and
manner as by the before recited act of congress is required and
directed. |
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