1806.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. XV.

Passed 31st of
Dec. 1806.

An ACT authorising a lottery for raising a sum of money for the
rector land vestry of Saint-Thomas's parish, in Baltimore county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of the vestry, and
others, of Saint-Thomas's parish, in Baltemore county, that they are indebted for sundry
balances due on the purchase of land for a glebe for said parish, as also for building a parsonage,
house, and being also desirous of repairing the church attached to the aforesaid parish; therefore,

Scheme may be
proposed, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That doctor John Cromwell, Samnel
Owings, Bryan Philport, doctor Thomas C.. Walker, Moses Brown, Kinsey Johns, John T. Wor.
thington and Robert N. Moale, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby authorised to propose
a scheme of a lottery, and to sell and dispose of tickets therein, for raising a sum of money, not
exceeding three thousand dollars, five hundred of which shall be appropriated to the repairs of the
church, commonly called The Chapel of Ease, in Delaware Lower Hundred, the residue in such
manner as may appear necessary to the aforesaid doctor John Cromwell, Samuel Owings, Bryan
Philpott, doctor Thomas C. Walker, Moses Brown, Kinsey Johns, John T. Worthington and Ro-
bert N. Moale, or a majority of them, for the aforesaid purposes.

Bond to be
given, &c.

III. AND EE IT ENACTED, That before the said doctor John Cromwell, Samuel Owings, Bryan
Philport, doctor Thomas C. Walker, Moses Brown, Kinsey Johns, John T. Worthington and Ro.
bert N. Moale, proceed to make sale of any ticket or tickets in the said lottery, they shall give ami
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 therefrom,
within six months after the drawing thereof, to the payment of the prizes drawn therein to the si
venturers to whom they shall be due, and the necessary expences incurred in the management there,
of, and the residue to the repairing of the said churches, and the reimbursement of the said vestry,

To be lodged
in the office,
&c.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said bond shall be lodged in the office of the clerk of Balti-
more county, to be there recorded, and upon such bond, or any office copy, suit or suits may be in-
stituted for any breach or non-compliance with the condition thereof.

CHAP. XVI.

Passed 31st of
Dec. 1806.

An ACT authorising the justices of the orphans courts to take she
riff's bonds,.

Preamble.

WHEREAS great inconveniencies have been experienced in many of the counties in this state
in taking sheriff's bonds, in which a judge of the courts, as now established, does not reside;
for remedy whereof,

Justices may
take bonds, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall be lawful for the justices of
the orphans courts, or any two of them, in their respective counties, either in court or out of court,
to take sheriff's bonds, in the same manner as the chief justice or associate justices were heretofore
empowered to take the same, or as a judge of the courts as now established is authorised to do; and
the bond, when so taken, shall be lodged with the clerk of the county court of the county in which
the same may have been taken, and shall by him be recorded among the records of his county, and
upon such bond, or any office copy thereof, suit ©r suits may be instituted against the obligor or
obligors,

CHAP. XVII.

Passed 31st of
Dec. 1806.

An ACT supplementary to an act, entitled, An act to Incorporate
the stockholders in the Union Bank of Maryland.

Preamble,

WHEREAS the president and directors of the Union Bank of Maryland, on behalf of them-
selves and the other stockholders in the said bank, have represented to the general assembly of
Maryland, that they experience much inconvenience from that part of the second fundamental arti-
cle of the act incorporating the stockholders in the Union Bank of Maryland, which exclude direc-
tors who have served three years from being elected again until two years have elapsed; therefore.

Part of an ar-
ticle repealed.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That so much of the second fundamen-
tal article as renders a director, after serving three years, ineligible, for the succeeding two years,
be and the same is hereby repealed.