CHARLES GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

1818.

10. And be it enacted, That the commissioners to be appointed
under this act, may recover any debt due to the bank, in a suit to
be instituted, in the corporate name or style of the institution.
11. And be it enacted, That a commission, at the discretion of
the court, not exceeding five per cent, shall be allowed such com-
missioners.
12. And be it enacted, That this act shall not take effect, and be
in force, until after the first day of January next, in relation to
any bank which regularly paid specie for its notes from the first
day of May last to the first day of October last.
13. And be it enacted, That in payment of any debt due to or
judgment obtained by, a bank or banks in this state, or by the
commissioners which may be appointed under the provisions of
this act, the note or notes of the bank to whom the debt is due, or
by or for whom the judgment has been obtained, shall be received
in payment at the full value contained in the promise made by said
note or notes.

chap. 177.

Commissioners
may recover debts
due the bank in
the corporate
name or style
thereof.
Their commission

Not take effect
until the first of
January next in
relation to certain
banks.

In payment of
debts due a bank
or the commission-
ers, notes of the
bank &c to be
received, &c.

CHAPTER 178.

An act to confirm the Proceedings of the Orphans Court in
Allegany county.
Whereas John Scott was duly commissioned a justice of the or-
phans court of Allegany county, and qualified, and acted as such
during the year eighteen hundred and seventeen: And whereas the
said John Scott, being under the impression that he was continued
in the commission as one of the justices of the said court, acted as
such during a part of the year eighteen hundred and eighteen;
therefore,
Sec. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
all and singular the proceedings had and done in the said court,
during the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, in the transaction
of which the said John Scott acted as one of the justices of said
court, be and the same are hereby confirmed, and shall be as valid,
and shall have the same effect and operation in law, as if the said
John Scott had been duly commissioned and qualified as a justice
of the said orphans court, according to the laws of the state of
Maryland,

Passed Feb 15 1819

Preamble

Certain proceed-
ings confirmed.

CHAPTER 179.
An act supplementary to the act to regulate Lotteries.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
if the managers of any lottery now authorised by law, shall not, on
or before the first day of March eighteen hundred and twenty, sig-
nify to the commissioners, in writing, their wishes to have the said
lottery drawn, and their determination to propose a scheme for that
purpose, whenever their right to draw shall come in rotation, the
right of said managers to draw said lottery shall be wholly forfeited.
2. And be it enacted, That the managers of any lottery which may
hereafter be drawn in this state, be and they are hereby authorised
and required, to pay to the treasurer of the western shore of Mary-
land, for the use of the state, five per centum upon the gross amount
of prizes in said lottery, and on the presentation of the receipt of
the treasurer, that such five per centum on the gross amount of prizes
has been paid, and not before, the commissioners shall permit the
managers of said lottery to proceed with the drawing of the same.

Passed Feb 16 1819

Managers, when
right to draw
comes in rotation
who do not signify
their wishes to
have lottery
drawn to forfeit
their right, &c.

No lottery to be

drawn unless re-
ceipt by the treas-
surer of the five
per cent. being
paid, be present-
ed.