| 1807.
CHAP. 152. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
and also a duplicate thereof to the clerk of the court of appeals
of the western shore of Maryland, there to be kept as other
public records are.
By a duplicate of the proceedings of
the convention, remaining in the office of
the court of appeals for the Western Shore, and recorded in Lib. JG. No.
7, fol.
212, &c. it appears that the delegate met in convention, on the second
Monday
in February 1808, did unanimously assent to and adopt the alterations and
provisions
established by this act. |
Persons authorised
to hold said
election. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the persons appointed
to hold
elections in the several wards of the said city on the first Monday
in October last, shall, and it is hereby required of them, to hold
and conduct an election for the said delegates to the convention on
the said first Monday in February next, in the same manner that
an election for members of the first branch of the city council is
had; the expenses of which election shall be defrayed by the said
corporation in the same manner that the expenses of other city elections
are. |
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Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
CHAP. CLIII.
An Act authorising the drawing of a Lottery for raising a sum of
money for the purposes therein mentioned. Lib.
TH. No. 1, fol.
495.
See 1797, ch. 92. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS by the petition of the directors of the
Annacostia
bridge company it has been prayed, that a law may pass authorising
a lottery to raise a sum of money to be applied in making passable
the direct road from the city of Annapolis to the seat of government
of the United States, by way of the Annacostia bridge,
and it appearing to this general assembly that great convenience
will result to a considerable portion of this state by granting the
prayer of the petition; therefore, |
Scheme may be
proposed—bond to
be given. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Edward J. Coale, Samuel Sterett and Robert Jenkins Henry, or
a majority of them, be and they are hereby authorised to propose a
scheme of a lottery to raise the sum of ten thousand dollars, free
and clear of all expenses, costs and charges, incurred in the drawing
said lottery, and to sell and dispose of the tickets, as well in
the city of Baltimore as in any other part of this state, any law to
the contrary notwithstanding, and shall proceed to draw said lottery
in the city of Baltimore, under such limitations and conditions
as the mayor and council may appoint and direct; provided, that
the said Edward J. Coale, Samuel Sterett and Robert Jenkins
Henry, 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 thirty thousand dollars, conditioned, that
they will well and truly apply the monies arising therefrom, within
sixty days after the drawing thereof, to the payment of the
prizes drawn therein to the adventurers to whom they shall be due,
and after deducting the necessary expenses incurred in the management
thereof, shall pay over the residue to the commissioners herein
after appointed, or a majority of them, or their giving bond to
the state of Maryland, in the penalty of thirty thousand dollars,
for the faithful application of the money to the making passable the
said road. |
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