174

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Ses. 1817

Comm'rs to
retain money,

&c.

lotteries, proceed to pay on demand to the bearer of any ticket in
said lottery, which may have drawn a prize, the amount of said
prize, deducting therefrom first such discount as may be. prescrib-
ed on prizes in the scheme of said lottery, and five per cent, in ad-
dition as a tax thereon to the state, which go into the trea-
sury, applicable to the general appropriations of the legislature,
for the payment of the civil list, and the expenses of the govern-
ment, and the amount of the discount on said prizes prescribed by
the scheme of any and all of said lotteries, shall remain in the
treasury to be, appropriated by the general assembly to the con-
struction of canals and roads, improving the navigation of the
waters of the state, to the promotion of education, literature, arts
and sciences, and generally to the endowment and encouragement
of institutions which the legislature may from time to time think to
merit and deserve it.
19. And be it enacted, That said commissioners be and they are
hereby authorised and empowered, to retain out of the monies
which may come to their hands, a sufficient sum from time to time
to pay and discharge the expenses of drawing said lotteries, includ-
ing the rent of an office for transacting their business, or drawing
said lotteries, rendering an account thereof to the treasurer in the
first return made to him after such expenses are actually paid.

Passed Feb 11

Right vested
in trustees.

CHAPTER 155.

An act to confirm the title to sundry Lots of Ground to the
Trustees of that part of the Methodist Episcopal Church
called Sardis Chapel, in Talbot County.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
all the right, title, interest and claim, of, in and to, half of lot
number thirty-seven, and half of lot number thirty-eight, as
described in the plot of St. Michael's, in Talbot county, and ex-
pressed in a deed from James Braddock to James Benson and others,
trustees for the society called Methodists, bearing date the sixth
day of June, seventeen hundred and eighty-two, be and the same is
hereby vested in, and confirmed to, the trustees and their successors,
of that part of the Methodist Episcopal Church called Sardis Cha-
pel in Talbot county, any deficiency or defect in said deed not-
withstanding.

Passed Feb 11

Tax on branch
established in
the state with
out its autho-
rity.

CHAPTER 156.

An act to impose a Tax on all Banks or Branches thereof
in the State of Maryland not chartered by the Legislature.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
if any bank has established, or shall without authority from the
state, first had and obtained, establish any branch, office of discount
and deposit, or office, of pay and receipt, in any part of this state,
it shall not be lawful for the said branch, office, of discount and de-
posit, or office of pay and receipt, to issue notes in any manner, of
any other denomination than five, ten, twenty, fifty, one hundred,
five hundred and one thousand dollars, and no note shall be issued
except upon stamp paper of the following denominations; that is to
say, every five dollar note shall be upon a stamp of ten cents; eve-
ry ten dollar note upon a stamp of twenty cents; every twenty dot-