1960

HARFORD COUNTY.

always, that the said rules, laws and orders, be no ways con-
trary to the laws of this state.
By 1828, ch. 75, the trustees are to be appointed by the commissioners
of Harford County.
SEC. 4. Merged in 1828, ch. 75, sec. 6.

Penalty on
refusal to
serve, &c.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That every person by this act
appointed as a trustee for the poor, or that shall hereafter be
nominated and appointed as such pursuant to the directions
thereof, and who shall wilfully refuse or delay to take upon
him the said office, shall forfeit and pay, for every such refusal
or delay, the sum of ten pounds current money ; Provided,
that no member of the general assembly, clergyman, attorney
or practising physician, be obliged to accept the office of trustee
aforesaid, or forfeit as aforesaid for refusing to accept and take
upon him the same, and that no judge of the general court,
cpunty magistrate or sheriff, or any one who hath not the
qualification to be a member of the general assembly, if elected,
shall be capable to be chosen or act as a trustee aforesaid.

Trustees to
draw, &LC.

SEC. 6. And, for enabling the said trustees respectively to
purchase land, and erect alms and work-houses in their said
counties, Ue it enacted, that the said trustees, or the major part
of them, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered,
from time to time as occasion shall require, to draw upon the
collector of said counties respectively Tor all or any part of the
money by this act assessed, levied and collected, as shall re-
main in his hands, which the said trustees, or the major part of
them, shall think necessary for the uses and purposes men-
tioned in this act.

To pur-
chase land,
&c.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the said trustees respec-
tively, or the major part of them, appointed as aforesaid, shall
and they are hereby authorized, directed and required, to buy
and purchase, in fee simple, a quantity of land in their respec-
tive counties, not exceeding fifty acres, and the said trustees,
or the .major part of them, appointed as aforesaid, are hereby
authorized, directed and required, to agree and contract with a
workman or workmen to undertake, erect, build, and in a
workman-like manner to complete and finish, on the said land
when so purchased, good, strong, sufficient and convenient
houses, habitations and dwellings, for the reception of the
poor of their counties respectively, and of such vagrants, beg-
gars, vagabonds and offenders, as shall be committed by virtue
of this act, and they shall appropriate one part thereof to be
called the alms-house, to and for the reception and lodging of
the poor of their said counties respectively, and another part
or parts thereof to be called the work-house, to and for the
reception and lodging of all such vagrants, beggars, vagabonds
and offenders, as shall be committed by virtue of this act ; and