CHARLES RIDGELY, (of Hampton) Esq. Governor.

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2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the persons aforesaid,
or, such of them as may undertake to act, as aforesaid, or a.
majority of them shall, and they are hereby directed to pay
over to Charles Walker, John Tolly Worthington, Kinsey
Johns and Charles Worthington. within three months after the
drawing the said lottery or lotteries, the balance remaining in
their hands, after paying the prizes and necessary expenses at-
tending the drawing of the lottery or lotteries aforesaid.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said Charles Wal-
ker, John Tolly Worthington, Kinsey Johns and Charles Wor-
thington, shall, and they are hereby authorised and directed to
apply the said balance towards the building and completing a
Protestant Episcopal church in Baltimore county, at or near the
junction of the public roads near the mouth of Charles Wal-
ker's lane.

Dec. Sess.

1815.
Proceeds.

How to be

applied.

CHAPTER 187.

An act for the relief of Theodore Weems, of Anne Arundel
county.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the judges, or any judge of Anne Arundel
county court be, and they or any one of them, either in open
court or in the recess of said court, are hereby authorised and
directed to extend to Theodore Weems, of the county afore-
said, the benefit of the act of assembly passed at November
session eighteen hundred and five, entitled an act for the relief
of sundry insolvent debtors, and the several supplements there-
to, without requiring the said Theodore Weems to product the
assent in writing of so many of his creditors as have due to
them two thirds in amount of the debts due by him as is pre-
scribed by the provisions of the said act and supplements.

Passed Jan.
27, 1816.
Benefit of
insolvent laws
granted.

CHAPTER 188.
An act to condemn a lot in the city of Baltimore for a street.
WHEREAS the chairman and trustees of the Baltimore
Exchange company on behalf of said company have petitioned
the General Assembly, that a lot in the city of Baltimore be-
gining at the north west corner of a lot lately belonging to
Justus Hoppe, on Second street, and running thence west with
the said street twenty-five feet to a lot belonging to Cumber-
land Dugan, thence south sixty six fee, with the last mention-
ed lot, to a lot now belonging to the said company, and lately
owned by the trustees of William Belton, and others, and
thence east bounding on the said last mentioned lot, twenty five
feet to the said lot lately belonging to Justus Hoppe. and thence
north with the last mentioned lot sixty-six feet to the place of
beginning; in which said lot a certain John Mason Forster, has a
leasehold interest for ninety-nine years renewable forever, sub-
ject to a ground rent to the heirs of John O'Donnell, deceased, who
own the fee simple of the same, should be condemned for a street
for the use and benefit of said Exchange, and of the said city,
the said Exchange company paying the persons so interested
therein a full compensation for their respective interests accor-
ding to a just valuation thereof to be made under the authority
of the Legislature.
AND WHEREAS it also appears to this Legislature, that
the said Forster is absent from this state and resides in a re-

Passed Jan.
27, 1816.