JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 1826.

4. And be it enacted, That in the event of an appeal, and the inquisition of a jury, as provided for by this act, the amount of damage for the land or real estate, and improve- ments, so valued and assessed as aforesaid, being paid, or offered to be paid, to the person or persons entitled to receive the same, the state of Maryland shall thence forward forever there after be considered the true and lawful owner and proprietor of the said land or real estate, with the improvements thereof and all the wharves, and other appertenances thereto belonging or appertaining, and all right, title, estate and interest therein, at law and in equity, shall be vested in the said state, with full power, nevertheless, to the governor and council, to have any part thereof condemned and used as a public street, which they may deem necessary or proper to have so condemned and used.	CHAP. 250 After payment of damages property vested in state
CHAP. CCLI. An Act to explain an act, entitled, An act taxing or licensing certain Deal- ers in Lottery Tickets, and others, passed December session 1821, chap- ter 232.	Passed Mar 12, 1827
WHEREAS the general assembly of Maryland, by an act pass- ed at December session eighteen hundred and nineteen, chapter one hundred and seventy-three, prohibited any person within this state from having in possession any ticket, or part of any ticket, of any lottery not granted or permitted by this state, with intent to sell negotiate or dispose of, the same: And whereas, by an act passed at December session eighteen hundred and twenty-one, chapter two hundred and thirty-two, they fur- ther provided, that dealers in lottery tickets should obtain a li- cense, and pay for the same, to the use of the state: And where- as several grand juries of the city court of Baltimore, and dealers who have obtained licenses to sell lottery tickets, have construed the provisions of the last mentioned act of assembly, in opposition to the opinions of the attorney general of, this state, and the judges of said court, into a permission, to sell lottery tickets not authorised by the state of Maryland, contra- ry to the true intent and meaning of the acts aforesaid; There- fare,	Preamble
1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall not be lawful for any person within this state, from and after the passage of this act, to have in possession any ticket er part of any ticket, of any lottery not granted or permitted by this state, with intent to sell, negotiate or dispose of the same, to sell, negotiate or advertise, in any way whatever, any such ticket, or part of a ticket, or in any way or manner, or as agent, factor, broker or attorney, for or on behalf of any other person or persons, to aid. assist, or in any way to have any concern with any other person or persons in selling, dis- posing of, negotiating or transferring, any ticket, or part or parte of any ticket, or scheme, or class of any lottery not granted or authorised by this state; and any person offending in any of the particulars aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay, in the discretion of the court a sum not less than one hundred dollars, and not ex- ceeding five hundred dollars, to be recovered in the county	Penalty for sell- ing &c. ticket in any lottery not granted by state