How vacancies
are to be 
filled.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Penalty on
refusing to
serve, &c.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Trustees to
draw on the
collector, &c.
 
 

To purchase
land, &c.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

And buy
beds, &c.

    IV.   And, to perpetuate the succession of the aforesaid number of six trustees
for the said county,  Be it enacted,by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
as often as any one of the trustees for the poor in the said county shall die,
or remove himself out of the county, refuse to qualify, by taking and subscribing
the oaths or affirmations, or the declaration aforesaid, or become incapable of
acting, the trustees for the time being for the county aforesaid wherein such
vacancy shall happen, then surviving and remaining within the said county, or
the major part of them, are hereby authorised and required to elect, nominate
and choose, one of the principal inhabitants of said county in the place and
room of such trustee, and to fill up the number of trustees for such alms and
work-house; which persons, so elected and chosen from time to time, are always
to be qualified in the same manner as before by this act is directed.

    V.   And be it enacted, That every person by this act appointed as a trustee fo
the poor, or that shall hereafter be nominated and appointed as such, pursuant
to the directions thereof, and who shall wilfully refuse or delay to take upon him
the said office, shall forfeit and pay, for every such refusal or delay, the sum of
thirty dollars; provided, that no member of the general assembly, clergyman,
attorney, or practising physician, be obliged to accept and take upon him the
same, and that no judge of the general court, county magistrate or sheriff, or
any one who hath not the qualifications to be a member of the general assembly,
if elected, shall be capable to be chosen or act as a trustee aforesaid.

    VI.   And, for enabling the said trustees 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 empowered, from
time to time as occasion shall require, to draw upon the collector of said county
for all or any part of the money by this act assessed, levied and collected, as shall
remain in his hands, which the said trustees, or the major part of them, shall
think necessary for the uses and purposes mentioned in this act.

    VII.   And be it enacted, That the said trustees respectively, or the major part
of them, appointed as aforesaid, shall and they are hereby authorised, directed
and required, to buy and purchase, in fee-simple, a quantity of land in said
county not exceeding fifty acres; 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 workman-like
manner to complete and finish, on the said land, when so purchased,
a good, strong, sufficient and convenient house, for the reception of the poor of
said county, and of such vagrants, beggars, vagabonds and 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
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
offenders, as shall be committed by virtue of this act; and the aforesaid land
when bought, and the aforesaid house when built, shall be, and are hereby
enacted and declared to be, vested in the said trustees, and their successors, for
ever, respectively, as their estate and inheritance, for the uses and purposes by
this act directed and expressed.

    VIII.   And be it enacted, That the trustees, or the major part of them,
shall, and they are hereby authorised, directed and required, after the house