POOR.

1781

found loitering or residing in said county, who follow no
labour, trade, occupation or business, and who have no visible
means of sustenance, to be by said justice of the peace com-
mitted to the work-house, there to be kept at hard labour, for
any time not exceeding six months ; and the overseer of such
alms and work-house is hereby required to receive into the
said alms and work-house any poor appointed as aforesaid to be
received, and any vagrant, vagabond, beggar, and other idle,
dissolute, and disorderly person, so as aforesaid committed.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful
for the trustees aforesaid, or a majority of them, to bind out any
poor orphan under their care in said alms-house to any dis-
creet person applying for said orphan or orphans, always
having a regard to give the preference to tradesmen or me-
chanics, by obliging said applicants for any of the said orphans
to sign a good and sufficient indenture to learn said apprentice
the occupation that he or she may follow, and to find him or her
good and sufficient meat, drink, clothing, washing and lodging,
and to give such education to him or her as the master or
mistress, and the trustees aforesaid, may agree upon ; and the
said indenture, when so taken, shall be lodged with the register
of wills for Caroline county by any one of the said trustees,
within thirty days after the execution thereof, under the pen-
alty of ten dollars for every neglect, to be recovered before
any justice of the peace for said county wherein such orphan
may be bound ; and the register of wills for said county shall
and he is hereby obliged to receive and record said indenture,
as other indentures heretofore taken for orphans bound out by
the orphans court of said county, for which he shall be allowed
the sum of forty cents current money for each and every in-
denture so recorded, to be levied, collected and paid, as other
county charges are.

To bind out
orphans.

SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That the trustees aforesaid, or
a majority of them, be and they are hereby authorized and
empo.wered, to have and keep any number of out-pensioners
they may see proper, provided the number shall not exceed
fifteen, so as their allowance shall not exceed thirty dollars

To keep
out-pen-
sionors.

each annually ; Provided, the said trustees shall not allow any
person an out- pension who is not a fit object to be received into
the said alms and work-house ; And provided also, that no trus-
tee, overseer, or other officer of the said alms and work-house,
so long as he continues to act as such, shall furnish the said
house with any article of any kind whatsoever whereby he may
receive any of the moneys levied for the use, benefit or main-
tenance of the poor, or other person committed to said alms and
work-house.

Provisos.

SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That whosoever shall presume
either so set up a booth, stall, or other convenience, for the

Penalty for
booths, &c.