POOR.

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SEC. 2. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the free school property of the said county, of what
nature soever, and the funds appropriated to the use thereof,
be and are hereby vested in the trustees within named, and
their successors, and shall be taken and held by them for the
use and as funds for the relief and support of the poor of said
county ; and the visitors of the free school in the said county
are hereby authorized, required and directed, to deliver to the
said trustees all the free school property aforesaid, and to
render unto them a full and just account of the profits thereof,
and also of any sum or sums of money or tobacco which may
be owing to the said school; and if there shall be any money
or tobacco owing to the said school, the visitors shall, and are
hereby required, to draw an order or orders for the same to
the said trustees, and their successors, for the uses and pur-
poses aforesaid.

Property
vetted in
trustees,
fee.

SEC. 3. And, whereas there are buildings upon the said
land which may be repaired and converted into alms and
work-houses, and others which may be judged necessary by
the said trustees for the purposes in this act mentioned may be
erected and built on the said land, at a moderate expense, and
the same ought to be effected at the general charge of the said
county, Be it enacted, That the justices of the said county for
the time being shall, and they are hereby authorized and em-
powered to assess and levy, in equal proportions on the pro-
perty within the said county liable to assessment, at the time of
laying the county rate, the sum of three hundred pounds cur-
rent money, in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and
eighty-nine, together with the collector's commission of six per
centum thereon for collecting the same ; which said rate and
assessment, so as aforesaid to be laid and levied, shall be col-
lected by the collector of said county in the same manner and
at the same time as the county rate is collected ; and the said
money, when so as aforesaid collected, shall be paid by the
said collector to such trustees for the poor, or the major part of
them, as are by this act appointed, who are hereby authorized
and required to receive and apply the same to the uses and
purposes herein after directed.

Justices to
levy money,
&c.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That for the time being the seve-
ral persons hereafter named be and are hereby appointed trus-
tees of the poor within the said county, and are empowered
with full and sufficient authority to discharge the several
offices, duties and trusts, reposed and required of them by
this act; that is to say, Messieurs Richard Tilghman, Vachcl
Downs, Richard Bennett Carmichael, George Jackson, Francis
Hall, Aquila Brown, George Finley, Edward Wright and
Philip Fiddeman ; the which persons, or the major part of
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Trustees
appointed,
&c.