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LAWS OF MARYLAND,

1811.

ers in the act of assembly passed at November ses-
sion eighteen hundred and nine, to which this is a sup-
plement; and they are hereby invested with all the
powers and authorities vested by the aforesaid law;
Provided always. That the commissioners herein
named, or such of them as shall undertake to act under
this law, before they shall proceed to sell any ticket or
tickets in any lottery or lotteries which may be pro-
posed by them, shall give bond to the state of Mary-
land, in the same penalty and in the same condition
as is prescribed by the original law aforesaid, which
bond shall be recorded, and suits may be brought
thereon, or upon an office copy thereof in the same
manner as is prescribed by the original act afore-
said.

Powers vested
in persons not
herein named
shall cease.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That all the powers
and authority of such of the persons named as com-
missioners in the act to which this is a supplement,
and who are not herein named as commissioners,
shall from henceforth cease and determine.

CHAPTER 136.

Passed Dec. 27,
1811.

Au act to authorise the sale and conveyance of
certain property held in trust for the German
Lutheran congregation of the city of Balti-
more.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, It is represented to this General As-
sembly by the petition of the elders, church wardens,
trustees and a number of the members of the German
Lutherans congregation of the city of Baltimore,
otherwise called the Evangelical. Protestant Congre-
gation of the unvaried Angsburg confession of faith,
commonly distinguished by the name of Lutherans,
that they have found it necessary to sell a part of the
lot or lots of ground in the city of Baltimore hereto-
fore, at several times, conveyed to certain members
of the said congregation as trustees, and held in trust
by John Bridenback, Peter Frick, Erasmus Uhler,
Christopher Raborg and Henry Schroeder, as surviv-
ing trustees in trust for the use of the members of the
said congregation as a burial ground, and for the
erection of a place of public worship; that out of the
proceeds of such sale they might be enabled to pay the
expenses incurred in erecting a new church, or house
of public worship for the use of said congregation;
and have prayed the leave of this legislature to make