Acts. 383

wilfully refuse or Delay to take upon him the said Office shall

forfeit and Pay for every such refusal or delay the Sum of Ten

pounds Current Money Provided that no member of the Upper
house of Assembly Clergyman Attorney or Practising Physician be
obliged to accept of the Office of Trustee aforesaid or forfeit as
aforesaid for refusing to accept and take upon him the same and
that no Provincial or County Magistrate or Sheriff or any one who
hath not the Qualification to be a Member of the Lower house of
Assembly if Elected shall be capable to be chosen or Act as a Trustee
aforesaid nor shall any Person be compellable to Serve in less than
three Years after he has served or paid the said Forfiture for not
serving as a Trustee aforesaid

Liber R. G.

1774

and for enabling the said Trustee to purchase Land and Erect
an Alms and Work house in the said County Be it enacted that the
said Trustees or the Major part of them be and they are hereby
Authorised and impowered from time to time as Occasion shall re-
quire to draw upon the Sheriff of Talbot County in whose hands the
Tobacco aforesaid so as aforesaid to be assessed and levied or such
part thereof as shall by Virtue of this Act be so assessed and levied
shall remain for so much of the said Tobacco as the said Trustees or
the Major part of them shall from Time to time think necessary to
draw for the uses and purposes directed by this Act

[Trustees to
draw on the
Sheriff for
as much
Tobacco as
they shall
think neces-
sary for the
Uses directed
by this Act.]

And be it further enacted that the said Trustees or the Major
Part of them appointed as aforesaid shall and they are hereby author-
ised directed and required to buy and Purchase in ffee a Quantity
of Land in the said County not exceeding One Hundred Acres or
less than fifty and the said Trustees or the Major Part of them
appointed as aforesaid are hereby authorised directed and required
to agree and contract with a Workman or Workmen to undertake
Erect Build and in a workmanlike manner to compleat and finish
on the said Land when so purchased good strong Sufficient and
convenient Houses Habitations and Dwellings for the reception of
the poor of said County and of such Vagrants Beggars Vagabonds
and other offenders as shall be committed by virtue of this Act
and they shall appropriate one Part thereof to be called the Alms
House to and for the Reception and Lodging of the Poor of the
said County and another Part or parts thereof to be called the work
house to and for the reception and Lodging of all such Vagrants
Beggars Vagabonds and other Offenders as shall be committed by
virtue of this Act and the aforesaid Land when bought and the
aforesaid Houses Habitations and Dwellings when built shall be and
they are hereby enacted and declared to be vested in the said Trustees
as their Estate and Inheritance for the uses and purposes by this
act directed and expressed

27

[Trustees to
purchase
Land to
build an
Alms &
Work-
House; ]
p. 335