| 1816.
CHAP. 42.
Passed Jan. 3, 1817. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. XLII.
An Act authorising a Lottery for raising a sum of money to buy a
Lot of Ground in Frederick-Town, in Frederick County,
and build
a Church and Parsonage House thereon. Lib.
TH. No. 5, fol. 178. |
| Lottery authorised. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
John McPherson, John Ritchie, Joseph Flemming, John Bayly,
James Robertson, Frederick A. Schley, William Gunton, Robert
McPherson, John P. Thompson, Samuel Flemming, of Arthur, and
John Reynolds, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby authorised
to propose a scheme or schemes of a lottery, for raising a
sum of money not exceeding the sum of thirty thousand dollars, and
to sell and dispose of the scheme or schemes of said lottery, or any
ticket or tickets therein, to any one or more individuals in the state
of Maryland, on such terms as terms as they may deem most advantageous;
the money arising therefrom to be appropriated by them to the
purchasing of a lot of ground, and building thereon an English
Presbyterian Church and parsonage-house in Frederick-town, in
Frederick county. |
| Bond to be given. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That before the said
John McPherson,
John Ritchie, Joseph Flemming, John Bayly, James Robertson,
Frederick A. Schley, William Gunton, Robert McPherson, John P.
Thompson, Samuel Flemming, of Arthur, and John Reynolds, or
a majority of them, proceed to make sale of the scheme or schemes
of said lottery, or any ticket or tickets therein, they shall give and
execute a bond to the state of Maryland, in the penalty of fifty
thousand dollars, conditioned for the true and faithful drawing of
the said lottery by the managers named in said bond, and for the
faithful application of the money arising therefrom, within six
months after the drawing thereof, to the payment of the prizes
drawn therein, to the adventurers to whom they shall be due, and
the necessary expenses incurred in the management thereof, and
the residue to the purchase of a lot of ground in Frederick-town, in
Frederick county, and the building thereon an English Presbyterian
church and parsonage-house. |
Bond to be lodged
in clerk's office. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said bond shall
be lodged in
the office of the clerk of Frederick county, to be there recorded,
and upon such bond, or any office copy thereof, suit or suits may
be instituted for any breach or non-compliance with the condition
thereof.
See 1817, ch. 210. |
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Passed Jan. 4, 1817. |
CHAP. XLIII.
An Act to locate and make public the Road from New-Windsor, Sulphur
Springs, to Poulson's Meeting House, Frederick County,
thence
to intersect the Deer Park Road in Baltimore County.
Lib. TH.
No. 5, fol. 179. |
Commissioners appointed
to lay out
road. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Joshua Jones, Jacob Landis and Joshua Smith, be and they are
hereby appointed commissioners, and a majority of them are hereby
authorised as such, to lay out and open, at the expense of the
petitioners, a road not exceeding thirty feet in width, from New
Windsor, Sulphur Springs, to Poulson's meeting-house, Frederick
county, then to intersect the Deer Park road in Baltimore county,
so as to do as little injury as possible to the lands through which |
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