ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1807.

solutely and unconditionally vested in the vestry of the evangelic lutheran and evangelic presby-
terian congregation, and the successors of said body corporate, power, and they shall and are
hereby declared to be capable of bargaining and selling, leasing and conveying, the said tract or par-
cel of ground, or any part thereof, in as full and effectual a manner as any person or body corporate
may or can do,
CHAP. XLII.

CHAP.
XLI.

An ACT to authorise the drawing of a lottery within the city of
Baltimore for the purpose therein mentioned.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the president of the Liberty Fire
Company, on behalf of himself and the members of the said company, that they are possessed
of a valuable lot of ground in the city of Baltimore, upon which is erected an engine-house, which
is now much decayed; that the said lot is sufficiently large to admit a house capable of containing
two engines below, and a room above to answer for a commodious school, and a place of meeting of
said company to transact, their business, the profits of which would greatly alleviate the expenses
which necessarily occur by their meeting at public houses, and praying that an act may pass autho-
rising a lottery in the city of Baltimore to raise a sum of money for the purposes above mentioned;
therefore,

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, 'by the General Assembly of Maryland, That William Jessop, Francis Beeston,
George Decker, George Wall, J. Lewis Wampler, Adam Denmead and James Thompson, be and
they are hereby authorised and empowered to institute a scheme of a lottery within the said city,
consisting of one or more classes, and to dispose of tickets therein, for the purposes aforesaid, un-
der such limitations and conditions as the mayor and city council shall by ordinances direct and ap-
point; provided, that not more than four thousand five hundred dollars be raised by any scheme in
virtue of this act.

CHAP. XLIII.

A scheme may
be instituted,
&c.

A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act authorising a lottery for
raising a sum of money for the rector and vestry of Saint-Tho-
mas's parish, in Baltimore county.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the managers appointed to propose a
scheme, and draw a lottery, for the use and benefit of St. Thomas parish, in Baltimore coun-
ty, be, and they, or any person or persons appointed by them, are hereby authorised to dispose of
and sell all or any of the tickets of said lottery in the city of Baltimore, or any other part of this
state, exclusive of any control over the same by the corporation of the city of Baltimore, any law
or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.

CHAP. XLIV.

Managers may
sell tickets, &c.

An ACT to lay out and make a public road in Baltimore county.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by a number of inhabitants of Baltimore
county, that they labour under great inconvenience for want of a public road from Monkton
mills, on the Great Falls of Gunpowder, in the county aforesaid, until it intersects the York turn-
pike road at or near the distance of eighteen miles from the city of Baltimore; therefore,

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.
Preamble.

U. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Joshua Meredith, John Sowers and
Dickinson Gorsuch, or a majority of them, be commissioners; and are hereby directed and autho-
rised, to lay out a public road from Monkton mills, (the property of major William Gwynn, ) on the
Great Falls of Gunpowder, in Baltimore county, until it intersects the York turnpike road at or
near the distance of eighteen miles from the city of Baltimore, but not so as to pass through any
garden, orchard or meadow, without the consent of the proprietor or proprietors thereof; and the
said road, when so laid out, shall be and the same is hereby declared a public highway, to be kept
up and repaired in the same manner as other public roads in said county.

Commissioners
appointed, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners aforesaid, or a majority of them, be and they
are hereby authorised to ascertain and value what damages may be sustained by any person or per-
sons through whose lands the said road may pass, by opening and clearing the same; and the said
valuation shall be made and paid, or secured to be paid, before the commissioners shall proceed to
open and clear the same; and in case any proprietor or proprietors shall conceive him, her or them-

Who are to as-

certain the
damages, &c.