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CHAP. 53. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
it is desirable to encourage such undertakings, so promotive of
the public conveniency; therefore, |
Scheme may be
proposed—bond
to be given. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the said commissioners now appointed, or hereafter appointed, according
to law, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby authorised,
to propose a scheme of a lottery to raise a sum of ten
thousand dollars, free and clear of all expenses, costs and charges,
incurred in drawing said lottery, and to sell and dispose of the
tickets within the state of Maryland, or elsewhere, any law of this
state to the contrary notwithstanding, and to provide for drawing
said lottery in Chester-town, under such limitations as said commissioners,
or a majority of them, may appoint and direct; provided
such commissioners, or a majority of them, as shall undertake
to act under this law, shall, before the sale of any ticket or
tickets, 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 od said lottery, to the payment of the
prizes drawn therein to the adventurers to whom they shall be due,
and after deducting the necessary expenses in the management
thereof, shall apply the said ten thousand dollars to the erecting
said bridge over Chester river. |
Troops to pass
bridge free of toll. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That during any war,
after the erecting
of said bridge, it shall be lawful for any troops marching under
the authority of the United States, or of this state, to pass
over said bridge free from toll. |
Bridge may be
landed to connect
it with public road. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
be authorised
to land said bridge at such place on the Queen-Anne's shore
as they may deem, the most proper, and to connect it with the public
road, paying the proprietor for the value of said land such sum
as may be ascertained by a jury, convened by the sheriff of Queen-Anne's
county for that purpose, unless they can agree with the
proprietor of said land for the same. |
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Passed Dec. 23. |
CHAP. LIV.
A Further Supplement to an act (a) entitled, An act for the
better regulation
of Apprentices. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 51.
(a) 1793, ch. 45. See 1818, ch. 118. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS by an act for the better regulation of apprentices,
power is given to the justices of the several orphans courts of this
state, and in their recess to the trustees of the poor, or any two
justices of the peace, to bind out as an apprentice every orphan
child, (the increase or profits of whose estate, whether real or personal,
is or are not sufficient for the maintenance, support or education,
of said child,) to some manufacturer, mechanic, mariner,
handicraftsman, or other person, at the discretion of said justices:
And whereas by the said act no power is given to the justices of
the orphans court, trustees of the poor, or any two justices of the
peace, to have such children brought before them for the purposes
aforesaid; therefore, |
Orphans courts
authorised to bind
out children of vagrants,
&c. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the justices of the several and respective orphans courts of this
state, and in their recess, the trustees of the poor, or any two justices
of the peace, upon information, shall have power, and they
are hereby authorised, empowered and directed, to issue a citation |
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