1998

KENT COUNTY.

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 the said county, and the vagrants, beggars, vagabonds and
other offenders, who shall be committed by virtue of this act,
sufficient beds, bedding, working tools, kitchen utensils, cows,
horses, and other necessaries; and the said trustees are hereby
directed and required to purchase the said quantity of land
not exceeding thirty acres, or less than six, in such part of said
county, as they, or a majority of them, may think most conve-
nient ; and the said trustees are hereby directed and required
to keep a fair, distinct 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 support the same, to the justices of the said county,
at their June court yearly, to be by the said justices inspected
and examined, which said accounts shall be lodged with the
clerk of the said court.

Justices to
levy money,

&c.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That after the expiration of the
said three years, the justices of Kent county court aforesaid
for the time being shall and they are hereby empowered to as-
sess and levy on all the property in said county subject and lia-
ble to assessment, at the time of laying their county rate, a sum
of current money not exceeding five shillings on every hundred
pounds of property as aforesaid in the said county, together with
the collector 's commission of six per cent, for collecting the same;
which said assessment shall be made, levied, collected and paid,
in the same manner as herein before is directed ; which said
money, when so as aforesaid collected, shall be paid by the
collector to the order of such trustees, 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 other offenders, in the purchasing provisions
and other necessaries for use and labour, in paying a doctor for
his salary and for medicines, in providing men and women ser-
vants to be under the direction and management of the over-
seer of such alms and work-house hereafter directed to be
appointed, for and in purchasing materials for the use and
employment of all the poor, and all beggars, vagrants, vaga-
bonds and other offenders, who shall be able to work, and who
shall be committed by virtue of this act.

Trusted to
meet year-
ly, &c.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That the said trustees, or the ma-
jor part of them, shall and they are hereby authorized, directed
and enjoined, to meet together between the .first and tenth day
of November yearly, and all such other times as they shall
judge necessary, at the alms and work-house in the said