1843

CECIL COUNTY.

Property
vested in
trustees,

&C.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the free school property in
said county shall be and is hereby vested in the said trustees,
and their successors, and shall be taken and held by them as a
fund towards the establishment and support of said alms and
work-house, which property the said trustees, their successors,
or a major part of them, may, at any time, with the consent of
Cecil county court, sell, convey, and convert into money, on
such terms as they may deem most advantageous to said estab-
lishment; and the visitors of the free school in said county are
hereby directed to deliver to said trustees all the free school
property aforesaid, of whatever nature it may be, and render to
them a just and full account of the profits thereof.

Justices to
levy money,
&c.

SEC. 3. Andy the more effectually to carry this law into exe-
cution, Be it enacted, that the justices of Cecil county court
for the time being shall and they are hereby empowered to
assess and levy annually, as long as it may be necessary, on all
the property in said county liable to assessment, at the time of
laying their county rate, a sum of current money not exceeding
four hundred pounds, together with the collector's commission
of six per cent, for collecting the same, which money, when
collected, shall be paid to the order of such trustees, or a major
part of them, under their common seal, who are hereby autho-
rized and required to receive and apply the same to the use
and benefit of said alms and work-house.

Trustees
appointed,
&c.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That James Hughes, John Ward,
junior, Edward Ford, Jeremiah Taylor, Henry Hollingsworth,
Samuel Gilpin, James Orrick, James Mackey, son of Robert,
and Joseph Baxter, be and are hereby appointed trustees of
the alms and work-house in the county aforesaid, and that
they and their successors shall have the same powers, and be
subject to the same rules, regulations and penalties, as the
trustees and their successors of the alms and work-house of
Kent county, agreeably to an act passed this present session,
entitled, an act for the relief of the poor of Kent county, and
that all other description of persons in Cecil county shall con-
form and be subject to the same rules, regulations and penal-
ties, as are directed by said act for the relief of the poor in
Kent county, excepting nevertheless any thing in this law
which may contradict the same.
The power of appointment is vested in the Levy Court, by 1804, ch. 58.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act for the relief of the Poor of
Cecil County.— MAY, 1788, ch. 13.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it appears to this general assembly, that Joseph
Phelps, late of Cecil county, deceased, did, by his last will and
testament, bearing date the first day of November, seventeen
hundred and eighty-three, bequeath the residue of his estate to