416 Assembly Proceedings, November 5-21, 1770.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 54
Nov. 19

dorsed: "By the Upper House of Assembly, November 19,^th 1770
Read the first and second Time, by an especial Order, and will

not pass Signed by Order U Scott Cl. Up. Ho."

M.^r Beall brings in, and delivers to M.^r Speaker, the following
Report

By the Committee of Grievances and Courts of Justice, Novem-
ber 19:^th 1770

p. 178

Your Committee beg Leave to report, that it appears to them,
from the Copies of the Records of Queen Anne's County Court,
hereto annexed, that Doctor Joseph Haslett in November Term 1769,
did agree to receive the Poor of that County under his Care, and pro-
vide for them sufficient Meat, Drink, Cloaths, Washing, Bedding,
Houseroom, Medicines, Attendance, and every other Necessary of
Life, for one Year from thence, for the Quantity of One hundred and
thirty thousand Pounds of Tobacco; and also to receive all such
Persons, under his Care, and the like Provision, as the Justices of
that County should, within the Year aforesaid, from Time to Time,
order and send him, as proper Objects to be taken Care of by the
County; and that all such Allowances, as should be made to Pen-
sioners themselves, not put under his Care, should and might be
deducted from the said Quantity of One hundred and thirty thousand
Pounds of Tobacco. Whereupon the Justices of the said County did
agree to levy, for the said Joseph Haslett, fifty thousand Pounds of
Tobacco, and the Residue that should be due to him, to be levied
when the said Justices should be fully satisfied, that he had per-
formed and complied with his Agreement aforesaid; and the said
Justices did appoint Mess.™ Christopher Cross Ruth, Turbutt Wright,
Richard Mason and Joshua Clarke, Gentlemen, four of their Breth-
ren, from Time to Time, to examine and see, that the Pensioners
aforesaid were supplied with the Necessaries aforesaid, agreeable
to the Intent of that Agreement; and that the Justices aforesaid, in
Pursuance of the said Agreement, did assess and levy, on the tax-
able Inhabitants of the said County, the said fifty thousand Pounds
of Tobacco, and have ordered the same to be paid by the Sheriff to
the Administratrix of the said Joseph Haslett. Which Agreement,
so made and entered into by the Justices of Queen Anne's County
Court as aforesaid, your Committee are of Opinion, is a new and
unwarranted Method, of providing for the Poor, who cannot, as
your Committee conceive, by any other Authority than that of the
Legislature, be drawn and collected, especially without their own
Consent, to one Place or common Receptacle, and the said levying
and assessing the said fifty thousand Pounds of Tobacco, in Pursu-
ance of the said Agreement, your Committee are of Opinion was
illegal. All which is humbly submitted to the Consideration of your

honourable House.
Signed by Order Tho. B. Hodgkin, Cl.