POOR.

the aforesaid land when bought, and the aforesaid bouses,
habitations and dwellings, when built, shall be, and they are
hereby enacted and declared to be, vested in the said trustees,
and their successors, for ever, respectively, as their estate and
inheritance, for the uses and purposes by this act directed and
expressed.

1961

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the said trustees, or the
major part of them, shall, and they are hereby authorized,
directed and required, after the houses, habitations and dwel-
lings aforesaid, shall be completely erected and finished, to
buy and purchase, for the use and employment of the poor of
their said counties respectively, and the vagrants, beggars,
vagabonds and offenders, who shall be committed by virtue of
this act, sufficient beds, betiding, working tools, kitchen uten-
sils, cows, horses, and other necessaries ; and the said trustees
are hereby directed and required to purchase the said quan-
tity of land not exceeding fifty acres, as near and convenient as
may be to the court-house in their said counties; and the said
trustees are hereby directed and required to keep a fair, dis-
tinct and clear account, in writing, of all the moneys by them
received and expended by virtue of this act, and to return a
true copy thereof, and shew and produce the vouchers to sup-
port the same, to the justices of their counties, at their August
courts yearly, to be by the said justices inspected and exam-
ined, which said accounts shall he lodged with the clerks of
their said courts.

And buy
bed., &c.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That after the expiration of throe
years, the justices of the said county courts respectively for
the time being shall and they are hereby empowered to assess
and levy on all the property in said county subject and liable
to assessment, at the time of laying their county rate, a sum of
current money not exceeding three shillings and nine-pence
on every hundred pounds of property as aforesaid in their said
counties, together with their collector's commission of five per
cent, for collecting the same ; which said assessment shall be
made, levied, collected and paid, in the same manner as herein
before directed ; which said money, when so collected, shall
be paid by the collector to the order of the trustees for his
county, 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 offenders, in the
purchasing provisions and other necessaries for use and labour,
in paying a doctor for bis salary and for medicines, in provid-
ing men and women servants to be under the direction and
management of the overseer of such alms and work-house
hereafter directed to be appointed, and in purchasing materials
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Justice to
levy money,
&c.