1803.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.
LVIII.

A scheme may
be proposed,
&c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the
reverend John Dubois, Peter Mantz, George Baer, junior, Henry Darnall, Joseph Smith, Samuel
Lilly and Roger B. Taney, or a majority of them, to propose a scheme or schemes of a lottery,
agreeably to the directions, and upon the terms and in the manner, directed by the act to which this
is a supplement.

Part of an a&
repealed.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That so ranch of the original act appointing commissioners, other,
than those hereby appointed, is hereby repealed.

CHAP. LIX.

Passed 7th of
January, 1804,

Aa ACT to authorise and empower the levy court of Anne-Arundel
county to assess a sum of money for the purpose therein mentioned.

Preamble.

WHEREAS Mary Elliott, of Anne-Arundel county, by her petition to this general assembly
has set forth, that she is a very poor woman, and has a small child, and that she has entirely
lost the use of her legs and one of her arms, which render her entirely unable to support herself
and child by labour, and prayed that a law may pass authorising the levy court of Anne-Arundel:
county to assess and levy a sum of money for her support; therefore,

Money to be
levied, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices of the levy court of
Anne-Arundel county be and they are hereby directed and empowered, at their levy courts annually,
to assess and levy on said county a sum of money, not exceeding forty dollars, for the support and "
maintenance, of said Mary Elliott, and that the same be collected and paid annually to the aforesaid
Mary Elliott by the collector of said county, agreeably to the order of the levy court aforesaid.

CHAP. LX.

Passed 7th of
January, 1804

An ACT to authorise the levy court of Baltimore county to adjust
a ctaim of Henry Stevenson against said county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS Henry Stevenson, late inspector of tobacco at Fell's Point inspection, in Baltimore
county, has represented, by his petition to this general assembly, that while he acted as an
inspector at the warehouse aforesaid, there were several hogsheads of tobacco lost, or delivered
through mistake to persons who had stored tobacco at said warehouse, and that he had fully satisfied
and paid some of the owners, and to others he still stands indebted to for said lost tobacco, and that
since the appointment of the present inspectors it has been found, upon examination, that several
hogsheads of tobacco remained in said warehouse, lodged in the time of his acting as inspector, not
owned or ctaimed by any person whatever, and has been since sold, under the law of this state for
the inspection of tobacco, for the use of the county aforesaid; and it appearing probable that the
said tobacco remaining in the warehouse unowned, and sold as aforesaid, was the property of the
person or persons that other tobacco was delivered to through mistake as aforesaid, and the said
Henry Stevenson having prayed, by his said petition, that a law may pass authorising the justices of
the levy court of Baltimore county to inquire into the propriety and justice of his ctaim, and if the
said levy Court should be of opinion that the ctaim of the said Henry Stevenson is just, then to di-
rect him to be reimbursed out of the sales of the tobacco sold as aforesaid, and unctaimed by any
one, the money he the said Stevenson paid, or is liable to pay, for the tobacco aforesaid; therefore,

Justices to in-
quire, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices of the levy court of
Baltimore county shall be authorised, and they are hereby directed, to inquire into the circum-
stances of Henry Stevenson, late inspector of Fell's Point inspection of tobacco, in Baltimore
county, having lose, or delivered out by mistake, several hogsheads of tobacco while he the said
Stevenson acted as an inspector of said warehouse, and if the said court should be of opinion that
the said ctaim is just, then the said court shall cause the said Stevenson to be reimbursed out of the
sales of the tobacco sold as aforesaid, and unctaimed by any one, the money he has paid, or is liable
to pay, for said tobacco so as aforesaid lost or delivered out.

CHAP. LXI.

Massed 7th of
January, 1804

An ACT appointing commissioners to lay out the divisional road
between Somerset and Worcester counties, from the mills, former-
ly called John Caldwell's Mills, to Coxe's branch.

Preamble,

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that the boundaries of the lots in or
near the town of Salisbury, in Somerset and Worcester counties, and the use and enjoyment