ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER

1806.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices of the levy courts of
Anne-Arundel and Prince-George's counties be and they are hereby authorised and directed to levy,
on the assessable property of said counties, at their next meeting for the purpose of laying the levy
of said counties, a sum of money, not exceeding four hundred dollars in each of the aforesaid coun-
ties, to be collected and paid to the commissioners for the purpose of erecting the bridge aforesaid.

CHAP.
LXXXV.

Justices to levy-
money, &c.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That Thomas Woodward and Samuel Tyler, be and they are hereby
appointed commissioners to contract with and employ any person or persons to build and complete
the same.

Commissioners
appointed. &c.

IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy courts of said counties allow to the said commissioners
two dollars per day for each day they may be employed in advertising, contracting for and receiving,
said bridge.

CHAP. LXXXVI.

Their allow-
ance.

A Supplement to an act, entitled, An act authorising a lottery to
raise a sum of money to purchase a fire engine, and to purchase
ground and build a school-house, in Rockville, in Montgomery
county,

Passed 4th of
Jan. 1807.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Upton Beall, Honore Martin, Lewis
Beall, Thomas Linsted, Thomas P. Wilson, Richard Anderson and Solomon Holland, or a
majority of them, be and they are hereby authorised to propose a scheme of lottery for raising a
sum of money, not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars, and to sell and dispose of the tick-
ets thereof, provided, that the said Upton Beall, Honore Martin, Lewis Beall, Thomas Linsted,
Thomas P. Wilson, Richard Anderson and Solomon Holland, or a majority of them, before they
proceed to the sale of any ticket or tickets in said lottery, shall give bond to the state of Maryland,
in the penalty of five thousand dollars, conditioned, that they will well and truly apply the monies
arising therefrom, within ninety days after the drawing thereof, to the payment of the prizes drawn
therein to the adventurers to whom they shall be due, and after deducting the necessary expences
incurred in the management thereof, shall apply the residue, within twenty months thereafter, first
to the purchasing ground in the said town, or the precincts thereof, and building a school-house
thereon, and then to the purchase of a fire engine.

Scheme may-
be proposed,

&c.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said bond shall be lodged in the clerk's office of Montgomery
county, to be there recorded, and upon such bond, or any office copy thereof, suit or suits may be
instituted for any breach or non-compliance with the condition hereof.

CHAP. LXXXVII.

Bond to be
lodged, &c.

An ACT to alter and change the times for holding the court of oyer
and terminer and gaol delivery for Baltimore county.

Passed 4th of
Jan. 1807.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that a great inconvenience and delay
attends the administration of justice in Baltimore county, by the courts holden therein in-
terfering with each other; for remedy whereof,

Preamble.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the court of oyer and terminer
and gaol delivery for Baltimore county shall hereafter be holden on the second Monday in January,
first Monday in March, second Monday in July, and third Monday in September, annually, on which
said several days, as the case may require, all writs and other process issuing from the said court
shall be made returnable.

CHAP. LXXXVIII.

When court is
to be held, &c.

An ACT for the relief of Ephraim Furnis and Littleton Furnis, of
Worcester county.

Passed 4th of
Jan. 1807.

WHEREAS Ephraim Furnis and Littleton Furnis, of Worcester county, have, by their petition
to this general assembly, set Forth, that they have been presented, and are still liable to be
presented and indicted, because their house stands partly upon an old road, part of which is now
the main street in New-town, in said county, and have prayed that a law may pass to protect them
against future prosecutions; therefore,

Preamble.