THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1846.

person or persons, with or without consideration, upon any
event or contingency dependent upon the drawing of any
ticket or tickets, or number or numbers of any ticket or
tickets in any lottery whatsoever, shall, for each of said
offences, be punishable as is provided for by the first
section of this act in regard to the offences there de-
scribpd.

CHAP. 110.

SEC. 4. And be it enabled, That the employment, by
any licensed vendor or vendors, or any other person, of

any negro or colored person, to do any of the matters or
things prohibited by this act, or in any way to assist in
doing them, shall be punishable upon indictment and
conviction thereof, by a fine of not less than fifty, nor
more than two hundred and fifty dollars, and by impri-
sonment for not less than twenty days, nor more than six
months.

Punishable by
fine, &c.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That, in case any person

licensed by the commissioners of lotteries to sell domestic

lottery tickets, shall commit any of the offences men-
tioned in this act, it shall be the duty of said commis-
sioners forthwith to annul his license or any license in
which he may be interested, in addition to which, he
shall be liable to be prosecuted as is by this act pro-
vided; and it shall also be the duty of said commission-
ers to issue to the contractors to whom said license shall
have been originally granted, another license for the un-
expired term thereof without charge.

Duty of com-
missioners to
annul license.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That no proceeding in any
court or before any justice by indictment, action of debt,
bill in equity, or otherwise instituted, upon the sugges-
tion of the commissioners of lotteries shall be quashed,
set aside, dismissed or delayed for any defect or form,
whatsoever.

CHAPTER 110.

No proceeding
&c. set aside
for any defect
in form.

An act to provide for the re-building of Governor's Bridge
over the Patuxent River.

Passed Jan.
19, 1847.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That John T. Hodges and Roger Tydings
of Anne Arundel county, and Walter W. W. Bowie and
Benjamin M. Duckett of Prince George's county, be and
they are hereby appointed commissioners to assess the
value of re-building the Governor's bridge over the
Patuxent river.

Commissioner
appointed.