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An ACT to authorise a Lottery to raise a sum of Money for the
purpose of cutting and opening a Canal from the Head of Black-
water River to the Head of Parson's Creek, in Dorchester County.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Jacob Small, Hezekiah Price, John Gib-
son, George Crosdale, Joseph Jamison, Daniel Conn, Robert Cary Long, William H. Winder,
Nicholas O. Ridgely, John Cropper, John Williams and Joseph E. Muse, or a majority of them,
be and they are hereby authorised to propose a scheme of a lottery to raise the sum of thirty thou-
sand dollars, and to sell and dispose of the tickets, as well in the city of Baltimore, as in any other
part of this state, free from any tax, any law to the contrary notwithstanding, and shall proceed to
draw the said lottery; provided, that the said Jacob Small, Hezekiah Price, John Gibson, George
Crosdale, Joseph Jamison, Daniel Conn, Robert Cary Long, William H. Winder, Nicholas O. Ridgely,
John Cropper, John Williams and Joseph E. Muse, or such a 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 joint and several bond to the state of Maryland, in the penalty of sixty thousand dollars, con-
ditioned that they will well and truly apply the monies arising therefrom, within three months after
the drawing thereof, to the payment of the prizes drawn therein to the adventurers to whom they
shall be due, and after deducting the necessary expenses incurred in the management thereof, shall
pay over the residue to the commissioners herein after appointed, or a majority of them, on their
giving bond to the state of Maryland, in the penalty of sixty thousand dollars, for the faithful ap-
plication of the money so paid over to them to the cutting and opening a canal from the head of
Blackwater river to the head of Parson's creek, in Dorchester county.
II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said canal, when cut and opened as aforesaid, shall be con-
sidered and use as a public highway for ever thereafter.
III. BE IT ENACTED, That the bond entered into by the said Jacob Small, Hezekiah Price,
John Gibson, George Crosdale, Joseph Jamison, Daniel Conn, Robert Cary Long, William H. Wind-
er, Nicholas O. Ridgely, John Cropper, John Williams and Joseph K. Muse, as managers of the said
lottery, shall be lodged in the clerk's office of Baltimore county, to be there recorded, and the bond
entered into by the commissioners herein after appointed, shall be lodged in the clerk's office of Dor-
chester county, to be there recorded, and upon either of which bonds, or any office copy of either,
suit or suits may be instituted for any breach or non-compliance with the condition of the bond upon
which such suit or suits shall be instituted.
IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That John Williams, Thomas J. H. Eccleston, John Brohawn, Henry
Pattison, William M. Robinson, Thomas Jones, Anthony Thompson, Isaac Smith and William Ge-
oghegan, or a majority of them, be and are hereby appointed commissioners, to expend the money
received by them in cutting and opening a canal from the head of Blackwater river to the head of
Parson's creek, in Dorchester county, as aforesaid; and that said commissioners, or a majority of
them, be and are hereby authorised to survey, lay out and designate, in such manner as to them
shall seem most adviseable, the ground through which said canal shall be dug, provided the same
shall net run. through the dwelling-house, orchard or garden, of any person, without their consent.
CHAP. CXII.
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Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.
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