WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1839.

said company, or unless some responsible person or per-
sons will engage and undertake, with sufficient sureties,
to make and complete the same, upon the payment by said
company of an amount not exceeding fifteen thousand
dollars; and whereas, the said undertaking will subserve
materially the public convenience and interests; and it is
represented that to accomplish this highly useful object,
adequate means cannot be procured, save through the pri-
vilege of a lottery — therefore,

CHAP. 234.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Washington Hall, Samuel Rowland,
James Evans, of Robert, Anthoney Smith, George Gale
and William Mackey, of Cecil county, be and they are
hereby appointed commissioners, with full power and
authority, by a scheme or schemes of lottery, and the sales
thereof, or of the tickets therein, and without, being sub-
ject to any tax whatsoever, to raise the sum of thirty
thousand dollars, free and clear of all charges and interest
whatsoever.

Commissioners
named.

To raise by lot-
tery $30,000.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the scheme or schemes
aforesaid, shall be approved by the commissioners of lot-
teries, or any one of them, before the same or any tickets
shall be deemed to be authorised to be sold; and that be-
fore the said commissioners may sell as aforesaid, they
shall enter into bond with sureties to be approved, and
in penalty to be fixed by said commissioners of lotteries,
or any one of them, conditioned for the faithful discharge
of their duty as commissioners, and for the due ap-
plication, for the purposes of this act, of the monies
coming to dieir hands as commissioners, which bond or
bonds shall be made to the Stale of Maryland, and be filed in
the clerk's office of Cecil county court, and may on a
certified copy thereof as evidence, be sued as other public
bonds may, by any person or persons, or body politic in-
terested in the condition thereof.

Scheme to be

approved before
sale of tickets.

Bond to be gi-

ven.

Bond to be filed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said commission-
ers appointed by this act, may sell for such sums of mo-
ney as they may deem proper, the scheme or schemes afore-
said, and the purchasers thereof, and privileges in the disposal
ofthe tickets in said schemes and the raising money therefrom,
as are by this act conferred on said commissioners; pro-
vided however, that before such purchasers or their as-
signs shall so avail themselves of said schemes, they shall
enter into bond to the Stale of Maryland, with sureties to
be approved and in penalty to be fixed by said commis-
sioners of lotteries, or any one of them, for the punctual

Schemes to be
sold.

Proviso.