THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1845.

CHAPTER 200.

CHAP. 200.

An act entitled, an act to authorise a Lottery to raise a sum
of money to make a Turnpike road from the town of
Westminster, in Carroll County, Maryland, through
Taneytown, in said County, and through Emmitsburg,
in Frederick County, to the nearest and most practica-
ble rout to the Pennsylvania line.

Passed Mar.
3, 1846.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for Isaac
Baugher, Christian Correll, of Frederick county, and
John Swope, William Frizzle and Sterling Galt, of Car-
roll county; that they jointly be, and they are hereby
appointed commissioners, with full power and authority,
or a majority of them, to propose a scheme or schemes
of lotteries, from time to time, and dispose of their tickets
or shares of tickets, and draw lotteries from time to time,
until they shall have raised sixty thousand dollars, free
and clear of all expenses whatsoever.

Appoint com-
missioners.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That before any scheme or
schemes shall be proposed, or any ticket or tickets shall
be sold, or any lottery or lotteries shall be drawn, the com-
missioners aforesaid, named in this act, under this law, shall
give their bond or bonds to the Treasurer of the State
of Maryland, for sixty thousand dollars, with security to
be approved of by one of the judges of Carroll county
court; and said bond or bonds to be recorded in the
clerk's office of said county court, with condition that
they will faithfully cause the amount of money intended
to be raised by this act, to be applied to the making of a
turnpike road from the town of Westminster, in Carroll
county, through Taneytown and through Emmitsburg,
in Frederick county, to the nearest and best route on the
Pennsylvania line.

Commission-
ers to give
bond for $60, -
000.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the commissioners
appointed by virtue of this act, or a majority of them,
shall have full power and authority to sell or dispose of
their grant, by sale or contract, as they may deem pro-
per, to any contractor or contractors of lotteries in the
United States; and such contractor or contractors of
lotteries, shall have and enjoy all the rights and privi-
leges, as are conferred on the commissioners named in

Authority to
sell or dispose
grant.

the first section of this act; provided however, that before
such contractor or contractors, shall so avail themselves
of said rights and privileges, they shall give a bond to
the State of Maryland, with one or more sureties, in the

Proviso.