CHARLES RIDGELY, (OF HAMPT.) ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 50.

An act for the relief of Priscilla Nicholls of Montgomery
County.
Whereas, it is represented to this general assembly, by the pe-
tition of Priscilla Nicholls, of Montgomery county, that at a court
of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery for Baltimore county, held
on the. second Monday in January eighteen hundred and fourteen,
a certain negro by the name of Ned, then a slave for a term of
years to the said Priscilla Nicholls, and having six years to serve,
was presented, indicted, and found guilty of felony, and sentenced
to labour in the penitentiary for the term of seven years; that no
valuation has ever been made of said negro Ned, agreeably to the
act of assembly in such cases provided; Therefore,
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the judges of Baltimore county court, at their next term, be and
they are hereby required to value the said negro Ned, and that
the amount be assessed and paid to the said Priscilla Nicholls, in
the manner provided by law in similar cases of conviction.

Dec. Ses. 1817.
Passed Jan 20

Preamble.

Negro to be
valued.

CHAPTER 51.

An act relating to Election. Districts in the City of Baltimore.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the number and limits of election districts in the city of Baltimore
shall always be the same as the wards therein.
2. And be it enacted, That if this act shall be confirmed by the
general assembly, after the next election of delegates, in the first
session after such new election, as the constitution and form of go-
vernment directs, that in such case this act shall be taken and con-
sidered, and shall constitute and be valid, as part of the said con-
stitution and form of government, to all intents and purposes, any
thing in the said constitution and form of government contained to
the contrary notwithstanding.

Passed Jan 15.

Number of
districts to be
equal to wards

If con firmed
to be part of
constitution.

CHAPTER 52.

An act to authorise the drawing of a Lottery for the benefit
of Charlotte Hall School in Saint-Mary's County.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Francis Digges, Charles S. Smith, George D. Parnham, John
Parnham, Samuel Hawkins, John Campbell, James F. Sothoron,
Henderson S. Boteler, James Forrest, Thomas Blakistone, Tho-
mas Barber, Luke W. Barber, James Somerville, John J. Brooke,
Clement Dorsey, John R. Plater, Samuel Claggett, Thomas Wil-
kinson, and Thomas Gantt, or a majority of them, be and they are
hereby authorised to propose a scheme of a lottery for raising a
sum of money not exceeding forty thousand dollars, and sell and
dispose of the tickets thereof in the city of Baltimore, or any other
part of this state, exclusive of any controul over the same by the
corporation of the city of Baltimore, any law or usage to the con-
trary notwithstanding; Provided, that the said Francis Digges,
Charles S. Smith, George D. Parnham, John Parnham, Samuel
Hawkins, John Campbell, James F. Sothoron, Henderson S. Bote-
ler, James Forrest, Thomas Blakistone, Thomas Barber, Luke W.
Barber, James Somerville, John J. Brooke, Clement Dorsey. John

Passed Jan. 10.

Scheme to be
proposed.