1801

NOVEMBER. L A W S OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.

LXXII.

land belonging, to said school was laid off into a town, and have prayed that a law may pass for
that purpose ; therefore,

Trustees to
survey land,
&c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by ibe General Assembly of Maryland, That the trustees of Charlotte-Hall
school, or any five of them, be and they are hereby appointed and authorised to survey so much
of the land belonging to said school as they may think proper, and the same when surveyed to lay
out into lots, streets, lanes and alleys; and the said trustees, or any five of them, are hereby re-
quired, within the space of six months after completing the said survey, and locating the same in-
to lots, streets, lanes and alleys, as aforesaid, to make, or cause to be made, a correct certificate
and plot of the said survey, and, of the respective lots, streets, lanes and alleys, located thereon,
describing and arranging the said lots in numerical order, and the streets, lanes and alleys, by
their respective names, and certifying the metes and bounds of each of the said lots, streets, lanes
and alleys, respectively, and to return the same into the office of the clerk of Saint-Mary's coun-
ty, to be by him recorded among the land records of said county, at the proper cost of the said
trustees, and to be securely kept -therein, and the said certificate and plot, or an official copy
thereof, or any part thereof, shall at all times thereafter be sufficient evidence of said lots, streets,
lanes and alleys, and of the respective metes and bounds thereof.

Cause lots to
be bounded,
&c.

III. AND BE IT -EN AC TED j That the said trustees, or any five of them, shall cause all the lots
in the said town to be substantially and fairly bounded and numbered, and from time to time there-
after see that the said boundaries be kept up and preserved.

And employ ;
clerk, &c.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees, or any five of them, shall have full power
to employ a clerk, who shall be under oath, fairly and honestly to enter into a book, to be kept for
that purpose, all the proceedings of the said trustees relating to said town, in which book, among
other things, shall be kept a fair plot of the said town, describing every lot by its number, and the
name of the holder thereof, and the said book shall always be open to the inspection and examina-
tion of the said trustees.

Ground to b
called Char-
lotte's Ville,

&c;

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the parcel of ground which may be surveyed and laid out
by the said trustees as aforesaid, shall be for ever thereafter called and known by the name
of Charlotte's Ville, and is hereby vested in the trustees of Charlotte-Hall school, and their
successors, and they are hereby authorised and empowered to sell and dispose of, in fee-sim-
ple, the lots in the said town, and make and execute deeds of conveyance for transferring the
same.

Deeds, how to
be executed,
&c.

VI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all deeds for the conveyance of any lot or lots in the said
town, sold by the trustees as aforesaid, shall be executed by the president of the said school, or
in case of his absence, by the chairman of the meeting of said trustees at the time when the said
deed may be executed, which deed, when so executed, shall be recorded among the land records of

Saint-Mary's county.

VII. AND, whereas the said trustees have prayed, that after the said town shall have been sur-
veyed and laid out as aforesaid, they may be authorised and empowered to dispose of the lots
therein by lottery, to raise a sum of money for the use and improvement of Charlotte-Hall school;

Trustees may
propose a
scheme, &c.

therefore, BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may be lawful for the said trustees, or any five of
them, as soon as they shall have laid out the said town, and shall have returned a certificate and
plot thereof into the clerk's office of Saint-Mary's county, in the manner herein before directed,
to propose a scheme or schemes of a lottery for disposing of all the lots in said town, or such num-
ber of them as they may think proper, and to sell and dispose of the tickets in said lottery, pro-
vided any five or more of the said trustees do, before the sale or disposal of any ticket or tickets
in said lottery, give their bond to die state of Maryland in the penalty of five thousand dollars,
conditioned that they will, within twelve months from the drawing of the said lottery, well and
truly make over and convey, in fee-simple, unto each of the fortunate adventurers, the lot or lots
respectively drawn by them in said lottery, and shall, after deducting the necessary expences in-
curred in drawing said lottery, well and truly apply the residue of the money raised by said lottery
to the improvement and advancement of the said school, in such manner as they shall from time to
time deem proper, which bond, when so given, shall be binding on the whole of the trustees of
said school, and their successors, in the game manner as if ail the trustees of the said school had
signed the same.

VIII. AND