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CHAP. CXXV.
An Act to prevent Bullet Playing in Union-Town, in Frederick County.
Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That, if
any person or persons after the first day of April next, shall be
found playing at bullets in the public streets of Union-town, in
Frederick county, each and every person or persons so playing,
shall be liable to be. presented or indicted therefor in the county
court of Frederick county, and upon conviction thereof shall be
fined, in the discretion of the court, a sum not exceeding fifty dol-
lars, and pay the costs of prosecution.
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CHAP. 125.
Passed Feb 7, 1820
Penalty for play-
ing in streets
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CHAP. CXXVI.
An Act relating to the Surgical Institution of Baltimore.
Whereas, in pursuance of and under the authority of an act
of the general assembly of Maryland, passed at December session
eighteen hundred and fifteen, entitled, An act authorising the draw-
ing of a lottery for the benefit of the surgical institution of Bal-
timore, the commissioners therein named proceeded to draw a lot-
tery, by which they raised the nett sum of twelve thousand five
hundred dollars: and afterwards, in pursuance of the authority
vested in them by the aforesaid act. purchased from the Bank of
Baltimore, anil the Bank of Maryland, for the sum of twenty-three
thousand dollars, a lot of ground near the city of Baltimore, for
the purposes expressed in the said act; and the said commissioners
hat ing paid to the said banks the sum of ten thousand dollars, part
of the aforesaid purchase money, and John Owen and William
Gibson, junior, two of the aforesaid commissioners, having bound
themselves in their individual capacity to the said banks fur the
payment of the sum of thirteen thousand dollars, the balance of the
aforesaid purchase money, with interest thereon from the first
day of April eighteen hundred and seventeen, a bond of conveyance
was thereupon, viz. on the thirty-first day of May eighteen hun-
dred and seventeen, executed by the president and directors of the
aforesaid banks, under their respective corporate seals, to the said
John Owen and William Gibson, junior, for and on behalf of the
aforesaid commissioners, conditioned for the conveyance by the
said banks to the said commissioners, of the aforesaid lot
of ground, on payment of the purchase money, in trust, in
the first place, to secure and indemnify the said John Owen and
William Gibson, junior, their heirs, executors or administrators, in
becoming answerable for the said sum of thirteen thousand dollars,
with interest as aforesaid, and afterwards in trust for such uses and
purposes as are limited and appointed by the aforesaid recited act:
And whereas, the said commissioners have actually expended upon
the buildings, and other improvements of said lot, the sum of twenty-
five hundred dollars, being the balance of the nett sum of twelve,
thousand five hundred dollars raised as aforesaid by the aforesaid
first drawn lottery, and the further sum of about fifteen hundred
dollars out of the nett proceeds of the second drawn lottery here-
in after mentioned: And whereas, by reason of the operation of a
subsequent act of assembly, passed at December session eighteen
hundred and seventeen, entitled, An act to regulate lotteries, (which
said act imposes a tax on lotteries generally, and in particular upon
a second lottery drawn under its authority for the purposes expressed
in the act of eighteen hundred and fifteen, the whole of the nett
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Passed Feb 7 1820
Preamble
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