EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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JUNE 1809.
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and they are hereby authorised and empowered, by a lottery or
lotteries, to raise the sum of sixty thousand dollars, to be applied
to, the payment of the debt or debts incurred by., the said company
on the works of the said canal, and also in the widening the locks
of the said canal, and extending the same, and improving the navi-
gation of the bed of the river above the canal.
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CHAP. 14.
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2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That before the said governor and di-
rectors shall proceed to sell and dispose of any ticket or tickets of
said lottery or lotteries, they shall first give bond and security to
this state, and lodge the same with the governor and council, in
the penalty of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, with con-
dition, that they will well and truly apply so much of the money
rising therefrom, within sixty days after the drawing thereof, as
will pay the fortunate adventurers for prizes drawn by them in
said lottery, and the residue to be applied and disbursed to the
payment of the debts of the said company, to the widening and
making new locks, to the improvement and extending of the said
canal, and to the improvement of the navigation of the bed of the
said river.
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Before they pro-
ceed to sell tickets
to give bund and
security.
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3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said governor and directors
shall render an account to the governor and council of this state of
the money so received by them, and of the expenditure thereof.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said governor and directors
shall be empowered and are hereby authorised to sell and dispose
of the tickets in the said lottery or lotteries within any city, county
or town, of this state.
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To render account
to governor and
council of money
received.
Authorised to sell
tickets in any part
of the state.
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CHAP. XV.
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a Further Additional Supplementary Act to an act (a), entitled, An
act for regulating the mode of staying Executions, and repealing
the Acts of Assembly therein mentioned. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 142.
(a) 1791, ch 67. See Nov. 18Q9, ch. 172.
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Passed June 10.
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BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
from and after the fourth day of July next, the act of the congress
of the United States (b), entitled, An act laying an embargo on
all ships and vessels in the ports and harbours of the United
States, and the several supplementary acts thereto, so far as they
relate. to the provisions contained in the acts of the general assem-
bly of Maryland, passed at the last session, chapters nineteen and
one hundred and fifteen, being further supplements to the act to
which this is a further additional supplementary act, shall he
deemed, considered and taken, to be wholly repealed and annulled.
(b) December 1807, ch. 5.
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Act repealed.
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CHAP. XVI.
An Act to alter the thirty-second and thirty -seventh Articles of the
Constitution and Form of Government. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 142.
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
hereafter, upon the death, resignation, or removal out of this state,
of the governor, it shall not be necessary to call a meeting of the
legislature to fill the vacancy occasioned thereby, but the first nam-
ed of the council for the time being, shall qualify and act as go-
vernor until the next meeting of the general assembly, at which
meeting a governor shall be chosen in the manner heretofore ap-
pointed and directed.
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Passed June 10.
Upon death, &c.
of the governor,
legislature not to
be called, but first
named of the coun-
cil to act.
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