ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1803,

them, to propose a scheme of a lottery for raising a sum of money, not exceeding fifteen hundred
dollars, and to sell and dispose of the tickets thereof; provided that the said Benjamin Corbin, Ri-
chard Brown, John Myers, Nicholas Brown and Joshua Cockey, or such majority of them as shall
undertake to act under this law, shall, before the sale or disposal of any ticket or tickets in said
lottery, give their bond to the state of Maryland, in the penalty of three thousand dollars, conditi-
oned that they will well and truly apply so much of the money arising therefrom, within six months
after the drawing of the said lottery shall commence, as will satisfy the fortunate adventurers for
prizes drawn by them, and after deducting the necessary expellees incurred in said lottery, shall,
within two years from the time the drawing of the said lottery shall commence, cause the said house
of public worship to be completed and finished in the best manner the sum of money raised by said
lottery will admit.

CHAP.

III.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said bond shall be lodged in the cterk's office of Baltimore
county, to be there recorded, and upon such bond, or an office copy thereof, suit or suits may be
instituted for any breach or non-compliance with the condition thereof.

CHAP. IV.

Bond to be
lodged, &c,

A Further supplement to an act, entitled, An ad: to regulate the
inspection of tobacco.

Passed 31st of
Dec 1803.

WHEREAS it has been represented to this general assembly, by the petition of sundry inhabi-
tants of Galvert county, that the establishing a warehouse on the land of James Heighe,
near Plumb-Point harbour, would be of great public utility, and that the proprietor is willing to
build the same at his own expence, and rent it to the county on the terms that other warehouses in
said county are rented j therefore,

Preamble,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the levy court of Calvert county
may and they are hereby authorised and empowered to establish a warehouse for the inspection of
tobacco at or near Plumb-Point, as the property of the proprietor, and to rent the same for the use
of the county.

Court to esta-
blish a ware-
house, &c

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said warehouse, when so established, shall be in all respects
under the same regulations as other warehouses in said county are.

Under same re-
gulations, &c.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That for every hogshead of tobacco inspected in Calvert county after
the first day of February, eighteen hundred and four, there shall be paid to the inspector who shall
deliver the said tobacco the sum of one dollar.

One dollar to
be paid, &c.

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every part of the original act to which this is a supplement,
contrary to the provisions of this act, shall be and they are hereby repealed, so far as they relate to
Calvert county.
CHAP. V.

Part of an act
repealed,

An ACT to prevent swine going at large In the town of Emmits-
burgh, and Shield's addition to said town, in Frederick county.

Passed 31st of
Dec. 1803.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that the running at large of swine in
the town of Emmitsburgh, and Shield's addition to said town, is very injurious to the inha-
bitants of said town; therefore,

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the
constable of the hundred to seize and impound any swine the property of any person in said town,
or in Shield's addition to said town, he shall find going at large in said town, or in Shield's addition
to said town; and it shall be the duty of said constable so seizing and impounding, immediately to
set up notice thereof in the most public places in said town for at least three days, and to insert
the marks and description of such swine in said notices, and if the same are not rectaimed within
three days after seizure and impounding, and the expences of impounding and keeping, to be allow-
ed by a justice of the peace, be paid, together with the sum of seventy five cents for every hog,
that the same shall be publicty sold by the said constable, giving three days notice in writing, set up
as aforesaid, of the time and place of such sale, and the proceeds of such sale shall be first applied
to the expence of impounding and keeping said swine, and the surplus, the one half thereof shall
be paid to the said constable, and the other half to the supervisor of the district, to be by him ap-
plied to the mending and repairing the streets in said town.

Constable may
seize swine,
&c.