POOR.

1817, ch 87, the governor to appoint the trustees, they to have a per
diem of two dollars.
1821, ch. 252, sec. 5, is merged in 1822, ch. 167.

1703

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act to provide for the appoint-
ment of Trustees of the Poor-house of Baltimore County, passed at
December session, eighteen hundred and seventeen. — 1818, ch. 122.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That at the first ensuing meeting, and at their meetings
thereafter to lay the levy annually, the levy court of Balti-
more county shall nominate and appoint one sensible and
disci eet inhabitant, residing in each election district of said
county, to be a manager of the poor of the disttict in which he
shall reside; and at the first ensuing meeting, and at their
annual session every year thereafter, the mayor and city coun-
cil of Baltimore shall nominate and appoint one sensible and
discreet inhabitant, residing in each ward of the city of Balti-
more, to be a manager of the poor of the ward in which he
shall reside ; and each of the said managers of the said dis-
tricts and wards, after having taken an oath or affirmation, as
the case may be, before some justice of the peace of Baltimore
county, that he will well and faithfully perform the duties of a
manager of his district or ward respectively, according to the
best of his knowledge and judgment, shall have full power and
authority to order and direct any indigent sick or disabled per-
son, infant or idiot, of the district or ward for which he shall
be appointed, and who may be entitled to public relief by law,
to go or be taken to the poor-house of said county, by his order
in writing ; and every such manager shall hold the said office
until the first day of May, 1821, and for and during the term of
one year each thereafter, and until his successor is duly ap-
pointed and qualified, agreeably to this act, and shall perform
the said duties of manager gratuitously.

One person
in each
election
district to
be appoint-
ed a mana-
ger of the
poor, &c.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
trustees of the poor-house of Baltimore county, to cause the
persons so sent or taken there, by order of the said managers,
to be received, maintained, and employed therein, so long as
in the opinion of such trustees such persons may be entitled to
lelief, and require it, keeping separate lists of the persons sent
by the managers of the wards ; and the trustees aforesaid, shall,
in the next and every future estimate of the amount necessary
for the support of the paupers and pensioners of the said poor-
house, make one estimate of the expenses of the persons sent
there by the managers of the districts, including the paupers
and pensioners of the county, distinctly from the city, who
shall then be in the said poor-house, or supported as out-pen-
sioncrs thereof, which estimate they shall deliver to the levy

Trustees to
receive and
maintain
persons so
long as in
their opi-
nion they
may be en-
titled to re-
lief, &c.