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Dec. Ses. 1817.
May appoint a
clerk.
Schemes to be
submitted to
comm'rs.
All lotteries
may be drawn
in Baltimore- -
and how &c.
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the treasurer of the western shore is authorised to pay semi-annu-
ally out of said funds only.
4. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners, or a majority
of them, be and they are hereby authorised and empowered, to ap-
point some fit and proper person to act as their clerk, removable
at the pleasure of a majority of said commissioners; who shall be
entitled to an annual salary of one thousand dollars, payable from
the same fund, and in the same manner as the salary of the com-
missioners.
5. And be it enacted, That the managers of all lotteries hereafter
to be drawn, except as before excepted, shall submit the schemes
thereof to said commissioners, who if they find the same not con-
trary to the law authorising the same, and the provisions of this
act, shall approve it, and upon such approval the said managers
shall, as soon thereafter as they may choose and be prepared so to
do, present the tickets in said lottery to said commissioners, whose
duty it shall be, without delay, to examine the numbering and
signing said tickets, and upon finding the same, correct, some one
or more of said commissioners shall sign his or their name on the
backs of each ticket, and return the whole tickets so examined and
endorsed back to the managers, who may thereupon, without delay,
proceed to sell and dispose of said tickets.
6. And be it enacted, That all lotteries authorised by this state
shall be drawn in the city of Baltimore, if desired by the managers
thereof, or the persons authorised by law to propose such lottery,
and if they prefer it, to superintend the same, or procure others
with the assent of said commissioners so to do, and the said com-
missioners shall within three months after their first appointment,
publish a list of all lotteries authorised by law, and which have not
been drawn as herein before declared, arranging them in the order
in which the acts authorising them were passed in point of time,
publish the same for one month in the several newspapers in the
city of Baltimore, and said lotteries shall be drawn under the di-
rection of said commissioners, and as is herein provided, in the
same order as the commissioners shall so have classed them, except
those herein before excepted; and if the managers of the lottery
so first entitled to be drawn in point of time, shall not within two
months thereafter present to said commissioners a scheme of said
lottery, for their approval, the right of said managers to draw said
lottery shall be wholly forfeited, and they shall not be permitted or
allowed to proceed in the execution of the law authorising such
lottery; and if after any such scheme shall have been presented
and approved by said commissioners, the said managers shall not
require said commissioners to proceed to draw the same within
four months thereafter, the right to draw said lottery shall in like
manner be wholly forfeited, and the managers shall return the mo-
ney, on demand, to those who have purchased tickets; and upon
ouch forfeiture of right to draw any such lottery in either of the
above cases, the commissioners shall forthwith give notice in two
or more newspapers printed in Baltimore to the managers of the
next lottery entitled to be drawn, and if the managers of such
next lottery shall omit to present a scheme, or proceed to draw as
is herein before stated, the like forfeiture of right shall take place,
and the said commissioners shall then notify as aforesaid the mana-
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