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Dec. Sess.
1815.
Bond to be
1odged and re-
corded.
Lot and
buildings— in
whom to be
vested, &c.
Style—inval-
ids to be recei-
ved from all
parts of the
state-----mode
of admission.
Proviso.
Death of sur-
geons—va-
cancy to be
supplied.
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law, shall before the sale or disposal of any ticket or tickets in
said lottery, give their joint and several bond to the State of
Maryland, in the penal sum of one hundred thousand dollars,
conditioned that they will well and truly within six months af-
ter the drawing of said lottery, apply so much of the money
arising therefrom, as will satisfy the fortunate adventurers for
prizes drawn by them., and dispose of the balance after deduct-
ing all necessary expences according to the true intent and
meaning of this act.
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the duty of
the said commissioners before they act as such, to lodge the
said bond in the clerk's office of Baltimore county court, there
to be recorded, and upon such bond or any office copy thereof,
suit or suits may be instituted and prosecuted in any court of
law or equity in this state, wherein such obligors may be legal-
ly sued for any breach of, or non-compliance with the condi-
tions of the same.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
aforesaid shall purchase with the money raised by the said lot-
tery, a convenient lot of ground in or near the city of Balti-
more, and shall erect thereon a suitable building to be used
and occupied at all times thereafter as a receptacle for invalids
requiring surgical aid, and the said commissioners or a majo-
rity of them, or a majority of the survivors shall always be
competent to act in the premises, and the said lot of ground
shall be purchased by, and the deed shall be made to the said
commissioners or the survivors of them, and it shall be the du-
ty of the said commissioners or a majority of them, or a ma-
jority of the survivors, as soon as the said building shall be
completed, or as soon as the same shall be fit for the reception
of invalids, to grant by a deed to be recorded in Baltimore
county court, the said lot of ground with the buildings thereon
to Doctor William Gibson, and Doctor John Owen of the city
of Baltimore, for and during the term of twenty years to be
computed from the date of the said deed, and immediately up-
on the execution of the said deed; the reversion of the said lot
with the appertenances, shall ipso facto vest in the State of
Maryland, and the said state shall be seized of the same estate
therein as was vested in the said commissioners.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the building so to be
erected as aforesaid shall be called the Surgical Institution of
Baltimore, and shall be held, used and occupied by the said
William Gibson and John Owen as a receptacle of invalids
from all parts of the State of Maryland requiring surgical aid;
and it shall be the duty of the said William Gibson and John
Owen to receive into the said institution, and to administer,
surgical aid gratis to all sued persons as may produce to them
a certificate from the orphan's court of any county in this
state, declaring that the person to whom such certificate is
granted is an object of charity; Provided however, that the
person so applying shall pay a reasonable compensation for his
or her board, it being the intention of this act to provide surgi-
cal aid for the poor gratis, but not to provide them the means
of subsistence.
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said surgical in-
stitution and buildings and appertenances belonging thereto,
shall be applied to and used for no other purposes or objects
than those which are medical, according to the true intent and
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