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aforesaid respectively for the time being, shall and they are

hereby empowered 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 quan-

tity of tobacco, not exceeding fifteen pounds by the poll, on

each and every of the taxable inhabitants in each of their said

counties, together with the sheriff's 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 purchasing provisions and other necessaries

for use and labour, in paying a doctor for his salary and medi-

cines, 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 mate-

rials for the use and employment of all the poor, and all beg-

gars, vagrants, vagabonds and other offenders, who shall be

able to work, and who shall be committed by virtue of this act.

SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the said trustees, or

Trustees to

the major part of them, shall and they are hereby authorized,

meet, &c.

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 continuance of this act, to appoint a fit per-

son of each county to be overseer of the alms and work-house

in each several and respective 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 empow-

ered to pay the said overseer, as a salary, out of the tobacco and

money raised and collected as aforesaid, a sum not exceeding

eighty pounds current money per annum, and do pro rata, dur-

ing his continuance in office, and shall then take, and the said

overseer, and every other overseer to be appointed, shall, and

he is hereby obliged to enter into a bond, with sufficient sure-

ties, in the penalty of two hundred pounds current moneyf

payable to the said trustees for 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 ----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

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