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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
Cocke, William Gwynn and William H. Winder, or a majority of
them, shall, before they undertake to act under this law, give their
bond to the state of Maryland, in the penalty of two hundred thousand
dollars, conditioned that they will well and truly apply so
much of the money arising therefrom, within twelve months after
the drawing of said lottery, as will satisfy the fortunate adventurers
for prizes drawn by them, provided application is made for the
payment of such prizes within twelve months after the completion
of said drawing, otherwise such prize or prizes shall be deemed relinquished
to the managers of the said lottery for the uses intended
thereby, and shall, within five years after drawing the same, cause
the money raised by the said lottery to be laid out and expended in
erecting a monument or statue to the memory of Washington in
the city of Baltimore.
By 1816, ch. 77, additional lotteries are authorised, &c. |
NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 113. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That after the new court-house
of Baltimore
county, now building in the city of Baltimore, shall be so far
completed as to afford suitable accommodation for the courts and
public offices of the said county, that then the public square in
North Calvert-street, in the city of Baltimore, on part of which
the old court-house of Baltimore county now stands, be and the same
is hereby appropriated for the erection of the said monument or
statue (a), and of such improvements suitable to the said monument
or statue, as the said James A. Buchanan, David Winchester, John
Comegys, James Calhoun, jun. Nicholas G. Ridgely, James Williams,
George Hoffman, James Patridge, Robert Miller, Washington
Hall, Isaac McKim, Lemuel Taylor, Robert Gilmore, jun. Fielding
Lucas, John Frick, James Barroll, Benjamin H. Mulliken,
Nathaniel F. Williams, Levi Hollingsworth, Edward J. Cole,
Doctor James Cocke, William Gwynn and William H. Winder, or
a majority of them, in their discretion, shall deem proper; and
power is hereby given to the said James A. Buchanan, David Winchester,
John Comegys, James Calhoun, jun. Nicholas G. Ridgely,
James Williams, George Hoffman, James Patridge, Robert Miller,
Washington Hall, Isaac McKim, Lemuel Taylor, Robert Gilmore,
jun. Fielding Lucas, John Frick, James Barroll, Benjamin H. Mulliken,
Nathaniel F. Williams, Levi Hollingsworth, Edward J.
Cole, Doctor James Cocke, William Gwynn and William H. Winder,
or a majority of them, to remove any obstructions in the way
thereof, on the said public square; and that the said persons herein
named, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby nominated
and appointed to elect and fix upon such kind of monument, or
statue or mausoleum, for the purpose therein specified, as they may
deem most proper, and to make such use of the unoccupied parts
of said square as shall, in their judgment, be best calculated to add
to the beauty and design of such monument or statue.
(a) By 1816, ch. 77, the scite
selected for the monument on North Charles
street adopted and confirmed, in lieu of the place here designated; and
by 1815,
ch. 102, the square of ground appropriated by this act for the erection
of a monument
to Washington, and not adopted by the managers, is appropriated for the
erection of the battle monument. |
After completion
of new court-house
public square on
which old one
stands appropriated
for erection of
monument. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said public
square, with the
said monument or statue, and improvements thereon erected, from
and after the said five years from the drawing of the said lottery, |
After five years
from drawing of
lottery public
square, &c. vested
in mayor and city
council. |
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