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pounds, shall be furnished with three buckets, and, all above five hundred pounds shall be furnished
with four buckets, on or before the first day of November next.
XVI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any house be rented, and the owner or owners thereof
shall neglect to furnish the same with a bucket or buckets as aforesaid within the time herein before
limitted for that purpose, it shall be lawful for the tenant thereof to procure the same at the ex-
pence of the owner or owners, and to deduct the price thereof out of the rent of the house.
XVII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners of the said town for the time being shall,
immediately after the said first day of November next, appoint their bailiff to make due inquiry at
every house in said town, and report to them all delinquents under this act, and such delinquents
shall forfeit and pay to the said commissioners the. sura of three dollars for each bucket not furnish-
ed, to be recovered, with costs, before any justice of the peace for Kent county, by warrant, in
the name of the said commissioners, and to be by them applied to the purchase of good leathern
buckets, to be deposited in. such place as they may direct; provided, that proof be adduced to the
satisfaction of the justice, that the party charged had been reasonably requested to exhibit the buck-
ets to the view of the bailiff appointed to inquire as aforesaid; and provided further, that no tenant
shall forfeit, as. aforesaid, until the expiration of two months, after the said first day of November
next.
XVIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners, for the time being shall fix on proper
places for erecting engine houses, and hanging ladders, in the said town, either on the public
grounds or buildings, on private property, if the owner or owners consent thereto, and shall also
settle and ascertain the. extent of the. precincts of the said town.
XIX. AND, whereas Samuel Chew, Esquire, has heretofore left open a part of a lot lying on
Club lane, in the said town, in consideration of being, permitted to enclose a part of one of the
streets, which arrangement has been found advantageous to the inhabitants; BE IT ENACTED, That
it shall be lawful for the said commissioners to make such exchange or contract with the said Samu-
al Chew, or others having an interest in the lots in question, as they may think most to the public
convenience, and any deed or deeds. executed for that purpose by the said. commissioners, and the
said Samuel Chew, or others having an interest as aforesaid, and recorded according to law, shall
enure to the benefit, of the commissioners of Chester-town, and the said Samuel Chew, and others,
respectively.
XX. AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to enable
the above commissioners to lay a tax on any of the property of Washington college, other than that,
which the visitors and governors thereof have leased out, and which has buildings on it.
C H A P. CII.
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An ACT authorising a lottery for raising a sum of money for repair-
ing St. George's church, on Deer creek, in Harford county.
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of Robert Morgan, one
of the members of St. George's church, on Deer creek, in Harford county, that the said
church is very much out of repair; and. praying that an act may pass authorising a lottery to raise a
sum of money for repairing the same;
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Parker Hall Lee, Abraham Jarrett,
Zaccheus O. Bond, Isaac Perryman, Edward Prigg, Thomas S. Chew, William Wilson, of Wm.
John Ayres and John Hopkins, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby authorised to propose
a scheme of lottery, and to sell and dispose of tickets therein, for raising a sum of money not ex-
ceeding three thousand dollars, for repairing the said church.
III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That before the said Parker Hall Lee, Abraham Jarrett, Zaccheus
O. Bend, Isaac Ferryman, Edward Prigg, Thomas S. Chew, William Wilson, of Wm. John Ayres
and John Hopkins, proceed to make sale of any ticket or tickets in the said lottery, they shall give
and execute a bond to the state of Maryland, in the penalty of six thousand dollars, conditioned
that they will well and truly conduct the drawing of said lottery, and apply the money arising there-
from, within six months after the drawing thereof, to the payment of the prizes drawn therein to
the adventurers to whom they shall be due, and the necessary expences incurred in the management
thereof, and the residue to the repairing of said building.
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Passed 27th of
January, 1806.
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