POOR.

1737

time being shall and they are hereby empowered to assett And
levy, on the assessable property in said county, at the time of
laying their county rate, a sum of current money, not exceed-
ing five shillings on every hundred pounds of property as afore-
said in the said county, together with the collector's commis-
sion for collecting the same, which said assessment shall be
made, levied, collected and paid, in the same manner as herein
before is directed ; which said money! when so as aforesaid col-
lected, shall be paid by the collector to the order of such trus*
tees, 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 medicines ; in providing
men and women servants, to be under the direction and ma-
nagement of the overseer of such alms and work-house, here-
after directed to be appointed ; for purchasing materials for the
use and employment of all the poor, and all beggars, vagrants,
vagabonds and other offenders, who shall be able to work, and
who shall be committed by virtue of this act.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted. That the said trustees, or the
major part of them, shall and they are hereby authorized, di-
rected and enjoined, to meet together between the first and
tenth days of November yearly, and all such other times as they
shall judge necessary, at the alms and work-house of the said
county, during the continuance of this act, to appoint a fit per-
son to be overseer of the alms and work-house of the said county,
and such other proper officers and servants as to them shall
appear necessary for carrying on the business of the said cor-
poration ; and they, or the major part of them, shall and may
agree, and they are hereby empowered to pay the said over-
seer, out of the money raised and collected as aforesaid, a sum
not exceeding fifty pounds current money per annum, as a
salary, and so pro rata, 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 one
hundred pounds current money, 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 Calvert 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 of Calvert county, then
this obligation to be void, else to be and remain in full force
and virtue.'
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Trustees to
meet yearly
&c.