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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
an act may pass authorising a lottery in the city of Baltimore to
raise a sum of money for the purposes above mentioned; therefore, |
1807.
CHAP. 42. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
William Jessep, Francis Beeston, George Decker, George Wall,
J. Lewis Wampler, Adam Denmead and James Thompson, be and
they are hereby authorised and empowered, to institute a scheme of
a lottery within the said city, consisting of one or more classes, and
to dispose of tickets therein, for the purposes aforesaid, under
such limitations and conditions as the mayor and city council shall
by ordinances direct and appoint; Provided, that not more than four
thousand five hundred dollars be raised by any scheme in virtue of
this act. |
Scheme may be
instituted.
Proviso. |
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CHAP. XLIII.
A Supplement to the act, * entitled, An act authorising a Lottery
for
raising a sum of money for the Rector and Vestry of
Saint-Thomas's
Parish, in Baltimore County. Lib. TH. No.
1, fol. 348. |
Passed Jan. 20, 1808.
* 1806, ch. 15. |
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That
the managers appointed to propose a scheme, and draw a lottery,
for the use and benefit of Saint-Thomas's parish, in Baltimore county,
be, and they, or any person or persons appointed by them, are
hereby authorised to dispose of and sell all or any of the tickets of
said lottery in the city of Baltimore, or any other part of this
state, exclusive of any controul over the same by the corporation
of the city of Baltimore, any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Managers authorised
to dispose
of tickets in any
part of the state. |
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CHAP. XLIV.
An Act to lay out and make public a Road in Baltimore County.
Lib.
TH. No. 1, fol. 349.
See 1811, ch. 66. |
Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by a number
of inhabitants of Baltimore county, that they labour under great
inconvenience for want of a public road from Monkton mills, on the
Great Falls of Gunpowder, in the county aforesaid, until it intersects
the York turnpike road at or near the distance of eighteen
miles from the city of Baltimore; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Joshua Meredith, John Sowers and Dickinson Gorsuch, or a majority
of them, be commissioners, and are hereby directed and authorised,
to lay out a public road from Monkton mills, (the property
of Major William Gwynn,) on the Great Falls of Gunpowder, in
Baltimore county, until it intersects the York turnpike road at or
near the distance of eighteen miles from the city of Baltimore, but
not so as to pass through any garden, orchard or meadow, without
the consent of the proprietor or proprietors thereof; and the said
road, when so laid out, shall be and the same is hereby declared
a public highway, to be kept up and repaired in the same manner
as other public roads in said county. |
Commissioners
appointed to lay
out a road. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
aforesaid, or
a majority of them, be and they are hereby authorised to ascertain
and value what damages may be sustained by any person or persons
through whose lands the said road may pass, by opening and
clearing the same; and the said valuation shall be made and paid, |
Damages to be
ascertained. |
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