490 Assembly Proceedings, May 24-June 22, 1768.

Liber H. S.
No. 1

Purchase for the use and Employment of the Poor, Vagrants, Beg-
gars, Vagabonds and other Offenders who shall be committed by
Virtue of this Act sufficient Beds Bedding Working Tools Kitchen
Utensils Cows Horses and other Necessaries And the said Trustees
are hereby directed and required to purchase the said Quantity of
Land not exceeding one hundred Acres as near and convenient as
may be to the principal Towns in each County or in those Counties
where no such Towns are as near and convenient as may be to the
several and respective Court Houses of each County: And the said
Trustees are hereby obliged directed and required to keep a fair
distinct and clear Account in Writing of all the Monies by them
expended and paid by Virtue of this Act and to return a true Copy
thereof and shew and produce the Vouchers to support the same
to the Justices of the several Counties aforesaid at their respective
November Courts to be by the said Justices inspected and examined

[The Justices
of the Coun-
ties afore-
said to
assess in
1771, A
Quantity not
exceeding
15 lb. per
Poll, &c. to
be paid to
the Order of
the Trustees
&c. to be ap-
plied to the
use of the
Poor.]

And be it further Enacted That after the Expiration of the said
three Years the Justices of the several County Courts aforesaid
respectively for the Time being shall and they are hereby impowered
to assess and levy on the taxable Inhabitants of each of their said
Counties at the Time of laying their County Levies in the Year
seventeen hundred and seventy one a Quantity of Tobacco not ex-
ceeding fifteen Pounds by the Poll on each and every of the taxable
Inhabitants in each of their said Counties together with the Sheriffs
Salary of five per Cent for collecting the same which said Assessment
shall be made levied collected and paid in the same Manner as herein
before by this Act is directed which said Tobacco when so as afore-
said collected shall be paid by such Sheriffs respectively to the Order
of such Trustees or the major part of them under their common
Seal who are hereby authorized and required to receive and apply
the same to and for the Use Benefit and Charge of maintaining the
Poor, Vagrants, Beggars, Vagabonds and other Offenders in the

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purchasing Provisions and other Necessaries for Use and Labour
in paying a Doctor for his Salary and Medicines in providing Men
and Women Servants to be under the Management and Direction
of an Overseer of such Alms and Work House hereafter to be
appointed and in purchasing Materials for the Use and Employment
of all the Poor and all Beggars Vagrants Vagabonds and other
Offenders who shall be able to work and who shall be committed
by Virtue of this Act

[Trustees to
meet on the
1st Monday
of May,
Yearly, to
appoint Over-
seers of the
Alms, and
Work-
Houses &c.]

And be it further Enacted That the said Trustees or the major
Part of them shall and they are hereby authorized obliged directed
and enjoined to meet together on the first Monday of May Yearly
and at all such other Times as they shall judge necessary at the
respective Alms and Work House in each County during the Con-
tinuance of this Act to appoint a fit Person of each County to be
Overseer of the Alms and Work House in each several and respec-