LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all persons
who shall be come subscribers to the said stock, their
successors and assigns, shall be, and they are hereby
made a corporation and body politic, by the name
and style of "'The Managers and Directors of the
Elkton Library Company" and by that name shall
be and are hereby made able and capable in law to
sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and
be answered, defend and be defended, in any court of
record or any other place whatever.

1812.

Company in-
corporated.

4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the officers
of the said company be governed by such rules and
regulations as the said managers and directors and
their successors, or a majority of them, shall from
time to time think proper to adopt.

Rules and re-
gulations.

5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said man-
agers and directors, be chosen annually from among
the stock-holders, who may be re-elected as often as
the stock-holders shall think proper, and to hold their
seats until superseded by the election of other mana-
gers and directors.

CHAPTER 81.

Managers, &c.
to be chosen
annually.

An act authorising a Lottery for raising a sum of
money to build a Church in the Town of Cumber-
land, in Allegany county.

Passed Dec.
17, 1812.

SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That David Lynn, William
M'Mahon, Upton Bruce, George Hebb, Patrick Mur-
dock, Roger Perry and James Searight, or a majo-
rity 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 ex-
ceeding six thousand dollars, to be appropriated to
the building a church in the town of Cumberland, in
Allegany county.

A scheme
may be propo-
sed — sum to
be raised.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That before the

said David Lynn, William M'Mahon, Upton Bruce,
George Hebb, Patrick Murdock, Roger Perry and
James Searight, proceed to make sale of any ticket
or tickets in the said lottery, they shall give and exe-
cute a bond to the State of Maryland, in the penalty
of twelve 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 adventurers to whom

Managers
shall give
bond.