POOR.

1997

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 of 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,
county 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, nor
shall any person be compcllablc to serve in less than three
years after he has served, or paid the said forfeiture for not
serving as a trustee aforesaid.

SEC. 6. And, for enabling the said trustees to purchase land,
and erect an alms and work-house in the said county, fie 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
Kent county for all or any part of the money by this act as-
sessed, levied and collected, as shall remain in his hands,
which the said trustees, or the major part of them, shall think
necessary for the uses and purposes mentioned in this act.

Trustees to
draw, &c.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted. That the said trustees, or the
major part of them, appointed as aforesaid, shall and they are
hereby authorized, directed and required, to buy and pur-
chase, in fee simple, a quantity of land in the said county, not
exceeding thirty acres, or less than six ; 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 said county, and of such vagrants, beggars, vagabonds
and other offenders, as shall be committed by virtue of this
net, and they shall appropriate one part thereof to be called
the alms-house, to and for the reception and lodging of the
poor of the said county, and another part or parts thereof to
he called the work-house, to and for the reception and lodging
of all such vagrants, beggars, vagabonds and other offenders,
as shall be committed by virtue of this act; and the aforesaid
land when bought, and the aforesaid houses, habitations and
dwellings, when built, shall be, and they are hereby enacted
and declared to be, vested in the said trustees, and their suc-
cessors, for ever, as their estate and inheritance, for the uses
and purposes by this act directed and expressed.

To pur-
chase land,
kc.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the said trustees, or the
major part of them, shall, and they are hereby authorized,

And liny
beds, &c.