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CHAPTER 43.
An act for the benefit of the Baltimore Carpenter's Humane
Society.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the Baltimore
Carpenter's Humane Society to appoint thirteen persons as
managers of a lottery or lotteries, who or a majority of whom,
when so appointed, are hereby authorised and empowered, to
propose a scheme or schemes of a lottery or lotteries, to raise a
sum of money not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars, clear of
all expences which may be incurred in drawing said lottery or
lotteries, and to sell and dispose of the tickets thereof, and to
draw the same; Provided, the managers so appointed by the
Baltimore Carpenter's Humane Society, before they proceed to
sell or dispose of any ticket or tickets in said lottery or lotte-
ries, give bond to the State of Maryland, in the penal sum of
thirty thousand dollars, conditioned that they will well and
truly apply so much money arising therefrom, within sixty
days after the drawing of said lottery is completed, as will sa-
tisfy the fortunate adventurers for prizes drawn by them, and
for the faithful application of the money authorised by this act
to be raised, which bond shall be lodged in the office of the
clerk of Baltimore county court, there to be recorded, and up-
on which bond or any office copy thereof, suit or suits may be
instituted against the obligors therein mentioned, or their legal
representatives, for any breach or non-compliance with the
conditions of the same.
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the managers of said
lottery or lotteries may sell or dispose of all or any part of the
tickets in the city of Baltimore, or elsewhere, any law or usage
of the contrary notwithstanding.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the nett proceeds of the
lottery or lotteries shall be applied by the managers to the erec-
tion of a hall in the city or precincts of Baltimore, for the use
and accommodation of the Baltimore Carpenter's Humane So-
ciety, and the support of a school for the education of the indi-
gent children of its members, and other benevolent purposes,
under the direction of said society, and to be and remain the
property forever of said Baltimore Carpenter's Humane Socie-
ty.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That an act entitled, an act
authorising a lottery for the purpose of building a Carpenter's
Hall in the city of Baltimore, be and the same is hereby re-
pealed,
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Passed Jan.
5, 1616.
May appoint
managers.
Proviso.
May sell
tickets.
Nett proceeds.
Act repealed,
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CHAPTER 44.
An act to make public a road in Baltimore County.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Christopher Carnan, Cornelius Howard, Tho-
mas B. Cockey, John Bond, Junr. and Robert N. Moale are
hereby appointed commissioners, and they or a majority of
them are hereby authorised to survey and make a plat of a pri-
vate road in Baltimore county, leading from a public road at
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Passed Jan.
4, 1816.
Commis-
sioners—plot
&c.
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