SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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the treasurer of each shore, ten per cent, and for all bonds four per
cent.

Dec...Ses. 1821.

CHAPTER 191.

A further supplement to the act entitled, An act to regulate Lotteries.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the present commissioners of lotteries shall give bond to the
State of Maryland, with five securities, to be approved by the judg-
es of Baltimore city court, in the penalty of forty thousand dollars
for each security, with condition that the said commissioners shall
well and truly perform all the duties of commissioners of lotteries,
and faithfully pay over all monies which shall come into their hands
as commissioners of lotteries, to those who shall by law be entitled
to the same; and the said bond shall be recorded among the re-
cords of Baltimore city court, by the clerk of said court, and a
copy thereof, under the hand of the clerk and seal of the court,
shall be, to all intents and purposes, as available evidence in any
court of justice in this state and elsewhere, as the original if pro-
duced and legally proven; and the state of Maryland, and all bo-
dies politic and corporate or individually, who may be interested
in the performance of the duties intended to be secured by the
said bond, shall be at liberty to demand a copy of the said bond,
and to bring a suit thereon in the name of the state, for his, her
or their use, and may recover thereon the full amount of debt or
damages which he, she or they may shew him, her or themselves

to be entitled to, or have sustained.

Passed Feb. 22,

1822.
Bond—securi-
ties—suits.

2. And be it enacted, That said commissioners be and they
are hereby authorised and required, annually to devise and fix upon
the scheme of not more than two lotteries to be drawn in the city
of Baltimore, and to prepare, sign and dispose of the tickets in
said lotteries, and to employ agents, brokers and others to sell the
same, taking always from the persons so intrusted with the dispo-
sal of tickets as aforesaid, adequate security for the punctual pay-
ment of the money arising from the sale of said tickets, and that
they may allow a sum not exceeding six per cent discount upon
the sale of or selling of such tickets from the price estimated or
fixed in the scheme in said lottery; and that said commissioners,
so soon as all said tickets may have been sold, or such proportion
thereof as they may be of opinion would warrant the commence-
ment of drawing said lottery or lotteries, shall proceed to draw the
same as rapidly and speedily as they may judge most prudent and
advisable; and the said commissioners may thus proceed annually to

draw not more than two lotteries.

Not more than
two lotteries to
be drawn an-

nually.

3. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners shall, so
soon as they have fixed upon the scheme of a lottery, transmit to
the governor and council a copy of said scheme, there to be pre-
served; and all money, notes, bonds, bills and other securities re-
ceived by the said commissioners in the sale of tickets, shall be by
them deposited in some bank in the city of Baltimore, in the name
of the commissioners, for the use and benefit of the state of Mary-
land; and the said commissioners shall transmit to the governor
and council at the end of every month, an account of the money,
notes, bills, bonds and other securities so received and deposited,
or as much oftener as they shall be required by the governor and

Monthly re-
ports to the ex-
ecutive—pen-
alty.