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3. And be it enacted, That if either of the lotteries herein before
named, or the schemes thereof not at this time actually sold, or if
any other lottery or lotteries heretofore authorised, or the schemes
thereof, shall be hereafter sold in the whole or in part, or in any
manner disposed of. whereby the sums authorised to be raised, or
any part thereof, could he applied or appropriated to any other ob-
ject, use or purpose, than such as are declared by the law authoris-
ing such lotteries respectively, or with intent to appropriate or
apply the same to any other object or purpose than authorised as
aforesaid, every such sale is hereby declared to be absolutely void,
and every manager of a lottery making or assenting to such sale,
shall forfeit and pay one thousand dollars, and every person ma-
king or concerned in any purchase prohibited by this section, shall
forfeit and pay five thousand dollars, to be recovered by indictment,
the one half to the informers, the other for the use of this state, in
the court of the county where the offence shall happen, and if in
the city of Baltimore the recovery shall be had in Baltimore city
court.
4. And be it enacted, That whenever the managers of two or
mote lotteries, now authorised to be drawn, may agree thereto, they
may and are hereby authorised to consolidate the lotteries respec-
tively of which they are managers, and to agree that the managers
of any one of sard lotteries may propose a scheme of a lottery to
raise the several sums authorised to be raised by all of said lotte-
ries, or to select from all the managers of said lotteries a board of
managers, to propose a scheme for raising the several sums so au-
thorised to be raised by said lotteries; and upon the managers
of said lotteries, or a majority of each, stating to the commission-
ers, in writing, that they have agreed to form such a consolidation,
with the names of the managers agreed upon to propose a scheme
of, and conduct such consolidated lottery, it shall be lawful for such
managers, so selected, to enter into a bond to the state of Mary-
land, in the usual form of lottery bonds, in a penalty equal to the
joint penalties prescribed for state bonds to be given by the mana-
gers of each of said lotteries, and upon so giving bond, said mana-
gers so selected shall be and are hereby authorised, to propose the
scheme of a lottery to raise the whole sum authorised to be raised
by each of said lotteries so consolidated, and shall be entitled to
draw such consolidated lottery in such order of time or succession
as the first of said lotteries so consolidated would have been enti-
tled to draw if no such consolidation had taken place, and the
drawing of such consolidated lottery shall be considered as the ex-
ecution of the whole powers granted to the managers of each of the
said lotteries, so consolidated, to draw the same; and the said ma-
nagers, so selected, and having given bond as aforesaid, shall have
all the power and authority, under the restriction herein contain-
ed, to sell and dispose of the tickets in said consolidated lottery,
and to draw the same, and shall be responsible on said bonds, in the
same manner as the managers of any of said lotteries would have
been had they given bonds and proceeded to draw their lotteries
separately.
5. And be it enacted, That should the managers of two lotteries
entitled to draw in immediate succession, agreeably to the provi-
sions of this act, agree to consolidate either by themselves, or to
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Dec Ses. 1817.
Penalty for ap-
propriating
money in any
other way than
authorised by
law.
Lotteries may
be consolidat-
ed, &c.
Lotteries en-
titled to draw
in succession,
and consolidat-
ed, how to be
drawn.
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