2038

MONTGOMERY COUNTY.

Overseer to
collect debts
due persons
admitted
into poor's
house.

SEC. I. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, whenever any per-
son or persons may be admitted into the poor's-house for Mont-
gomery county, to be supported by said county, it shall be
lawful for the overseer or superintendent of the poor of said
county, for the time being, under the direction of the board of
trustees of the poor for said county, for the time being, to col-
lect in the name of such person or persons, any debt or debts
due to such person or persons so admitted, and if necessary to
enforce the payment thereof, in the same manner that such
person or persons might themselves have enforced such pay-
ment previously to their admission as aforesaid into said poor's-
house.

To take in-
to posses-
sion any
property
owned by
such per-
sons.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That whenever any person or
persons is or are admitted into the poor's-house for Mont-
gomery county, to be supported as aforesaid, who have any
property of what nature or kind soever, it shall be lawful for
the overseer or superintendent for the time being as aforesaid,
under the direction of the board of trustees as aforesaid, to take
the same into his possession ; and it shall be lawful for the said
overseer or superintendent as aforesaid, under the direction of
the board of trustees as aforesaid, to pursue the same means
for the recovery of such property, or any part thereof, as the
said person or persons, so admitted into the poor's-house, could
or might have done before their admission into the poor's-house
as aforesaid.

Such pro-
perty to be
applied to
the support
of the
pauper.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all debts collected, or pro-
perty received or recovered under the provisions of this act,
by the overseer or superintendent of the poor, for the time
being, as aforesaid, shall be applied to the support of the pau-
per whose debts and property shall be so received, and if the
said pauper shall leave the poor-house, with the consent of the
trustees thereof, such part of the said property as shall remain
unapplied to the use aforesaid, shall be restored to him.

Rights of
creditors
not to be
affected

Repeal.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act contained
shall in any manner affect the rights of creditors of persons
admitted into the poor's-house.
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of acts in-
consistent with or repugnant to the provisions of this act, be and
they are hereby repealed.

AN ACT to encourage the growth of the Mulberry and the raising of Silk at
the Alms and Work-house of Montgomery County. — 1838, ch. 192.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it appears to this legislature, that the growing of
the mulberry and the production of silk at the alms and work-
house of Montgomery county, may lessen the annual expense
of said house to said county, and furnish useful and easy labour