aforesaid shall be completely erected and finished, to buy and purchase,
for the
use and enjoyment of the poor of said county, and the vagrants, beggars,
vagabonds
and 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 fifty acres, as near and convenient
as may
be to the court-house in said county, not exceeding seven miles from
said court-house;
and the said trustees are hereby directed and required to keep a fair,
distinct and clear account, in writing, of all the monies by them received
and
expended 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 said
county at their
May courts yearly, to be by the said justices inspected and examined;
which
said accounts shall be lodged with the clerk of the said court.
IX. And
be it enacted, That after the expiration of the said three years,
the
justices of the said county court respectively, for the time being,
shall and they
are hereby empowered to assess and levy on all the property in said
county subject
and liable to assessment, at the time of laying their county rate,
a sum of current
money not exceeding three shillings and nine-pence on every hundred
pounds
of property as aforesaid in said county, together with the collector's
commission
of six per cent. for collecting the same; which said assessment
shall be made,
levied, collected and paid, in the same manner as herein before directed;
which
said money, when so collected, shall be paid by the collector to the
order of
trustees for the said county, or the major part of them, under their
common
seal, who are hereby authorised and required to receive and apply the
same to and
for the use, benefit and charge, of maintaining the poor, vagrants,
beggars,
vagabonds and offenders, in the purchasing provisions, and other necessaries
for
use and labour, in paying a doctor for his salary and for medicines,
in providing
men and women servants, to be under the direction and management of
the
overseer of such alms and work-house, hereafter directed to be appointed,
and in
purchasing materials for the use and employment of all the poor, and
all beggars,
vagrants, vagabonds and offenders, who shall be able to work, and who
shall
be committed by virtue of this act.
X. And be it
enacted, That the said trustees, or a major part of them, shall
and they are hereby authorised, directed and enjoined, to meet together
between
the first and tenth day of November, yearly, and at all such other
times as they
shall judge necessary, at the alms and work-house in the said county,
during the
continuance of this act, to appoint a fit person to be overseer of
the alms and
work-house in the said county, and other proper officers and servants,
as to them
shall appear necessary for carrying on the business of the said corporation;
and
they, or the major part of them, shall and may agree, and they are
hereby empowered
to pay the said overseer, out of the money raised and collected as
aforesaid,
a sum not exceeding sixty-five pounds current money per annum,
as a salary,
and so pro rato during his continuance in office, and shall
then take bond, which
the said overseer, and any other overseer to be appointed, shall and
is hereby
obliged to enter into, with good and sufficient sureties, in the penalty
of two
hundred pounds current money, payable to the said trustees of the poor,
conditioned
as follows, to wit: " The condition of the above obligation is
such,
" that if the above bound A. B. as overseer of the alms and work-house
in
" Washington county, shall well and truly discharge his duty in the
said station,
" and more particularly according to the directions of the act of assembly,
entitled,
" An act for the relief of the poor in Washington county, then the
" above obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full force and
virtue in
" law."
XI. And
be it enacted, That the said trustees respectively, or a major part
of
them, shall and they are hereby directed and empowered to remove such
overseer,
and all other officers by them to be appointed in pursuance of this
act, at their
discretion, and to choose others in their place and stead. |
CHAP.
XXII.
After three
years, justices
to levy money,
&c.
Trustees to
meet yearly,
&c.
May remove
the overseer,
&c. |
