1827

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.. 160

A general penalty.

SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons
shall be guilty of a violation of any of the provisions, of this
act, or of any other of the laws relating to lotteries, or to the
sale of lottery tickets in this state, the penalty for which may
not be expressly provided, he, she or they, shall be liable
to indictment in the proper city or county court, as the case
may be, and upon conviction, shall forfeit and pay for each
and every such offence, in the discretion of the court, a sum
not exceeding five hundred dollars, one moiety to the use of
the informer, and the other moiety to the use of the state as
aforesaid.

Presention for
former violations
abandoned

SEC. 17. And be it enacted That no prosecution shall be
commenced for any omission to take out a license heretofore,
or for any past violation of the existing laws relating to lot-
teries, or lottery tickets; and that in all cases of indictment or
presentments now depending for such omissions or viola-
tions, the same shall on the payment of all costs, be dismissed
by the attorney, acting for the state, in the court where any

Charge to grand
juries

such indictment or presentment is depending.
SEC. 18. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
several ounty courts, and of the city court of Baltimore, to
give this act in charge to their repetitive grand juries, at each
successive term of their said courts respectively.

Repeal,

SEC. 19. And be it enacted, That the last section of the act,
passed at December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-six,
chapter two hundred and sixty-eight, entitled an act, requir-
ing the commissioners of lotteries to give bond, ber and the-
same is hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 161.

Passed March 10,

1828,

An act to incorporate a company for the establishment of a
Literary, Scientific and Military Academy, in Baltimore
county.

Preamble

WHEREAS, it has been represented this General Assembly,
that a number of citizens are desirous to establish at their
own expense and on their joint account, a Literary, Scientific,
and Military Academy, in the vicinity of Baltimore, for the
education of youth, on a plan well fitted to prepare them for
the proper discharge of their various duties in life: There-
fore,

Trustees — corpo-
rate powers grant
ed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Samuel Owings, John Patterson, James Bank-
bend, Cornelious Howard, Beate, Randall, Fielding Lucas and
James Smith, are hereby appointed trustees, and they and
their successors duly elected as herein provided, together
with all such persons as may hereafter become stockholders
in the said institution, are hereby constituted and declared to
be ore body politic and corporate, by the name and style of
the Trustees of the Pikesville Literary, Scientific and Mili-
tary Academy; with power to purchase and hold any lands.