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ed of in writing by the lottery commissioners, for the time
being; who are hereby required and directed not to approve
of any lottery or lotteries, or scheme of any lottery or lot-
teries, or other device or game of chance, other than those
which the said commissioners may and shall propose on be
half of this state, unless the same shall have been expressly
granted by the general assembly of Maryland, and also ap-
proved by the governor and chancellor of this state, if sc
required to be by the act or acts granting the same, and
which not having been forfeited nor fulfilled, may yet be in
force and remain in whole or in part to bo satisfied.
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Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That any and every lottery,
or scheme of a lottery or other device or game of chance,
shall be considered, and hereby is declared to be, unautho-
rised and prohibited by and within this state, unless the
same shall have been expressly granted by the general as-
sembly of Maryland, and also approved of by the lottery
commissioners, as hereinbefore prescribed; or unless the
same shall be proposed by the said commissioners on shall
of this state.
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Scheme. prohibit-
granted by the
general assembly
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Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That in determining the a-
mount which may be raised by lottery in virtue of any grant
made by this state, the lottery commissioners shall not al-
low any deduction to be made from the sum of money
which any scheme of any lottery that shall be drawn under
any such grant, shall purport to raise, because of any ticket
or tickets, or parts of tickets therein remaining unsold, at
sioners allow any deduction to be made from any sum of
money, which any such scheme shall purport to raise, for,
as, or on account of the expenses incident to the sale, or
drawings of any such lottery or lotteries, unless the act or
acts granting such lottery or lotteries shall expressly autho-
rise the raising of a specified sum clear of or over and a-
bove all expenses, nor in these cases, unless the several items
of such expenses, shall to the said commissioners appear to
have been necessary or proper, and the payment thereof be
proved to their satisfaction, by the production of authentic
vouchers, and a certified account thereof be at the same time
delivered to them; nor shall the sum which may be allowed
lor such expenses, in any case exceed the average rate of
discount which the said commissioners shall upon their sales
or parts of schemes or tickets therein make, or have made,
from the scheme price of tickets in such lotteries as they
may, at or about the same time, propose on behalf of this
state; which discount may, on sales of less than an entire
scheme, hereafter be fixed at any rate not exceeding seven
and a half per centum of such price, by the said commissi-
oners, who may allow a discount of ten per centum from
such price on each sale of an entire scheme, but shall ex-
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Determining
amount to be raised-
ed &c
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