POOR.

to support the same, to the justices of the said county, at their
July court yearly, to be by the said justices inspected and ex-
amined ; which said accounts shall be lodged with the clerk of
the said court.

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SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That after the expiration of the
year seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, the justices of Queen
Anne's county court aforesaid 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 exceed-
ing five shillings on every hundred pounds of property as
aforesaid in the said county, together with the collector's com-
mission 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 tc
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 whc
shall be committed by virtue of this act.

Justices to
levy money,

&C.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That the said trustees, or the
major part of them, shall and they are hereby authorized
directed and enjoined, to meet together between the first anc
tenth day of November yearly, and all such other times as
they shall judge necessary, at the alms and work-house in the
said county, during the continuance of this act, to appoint a fit
person to be overseer of the alms and work-house in the said
county, and other proper officers and servants as to them shall
appear necessary for carrying on the business of the said cor
poration ; and they, or the major part of them, shall and may
agree, and they are hereby empowered to pay the said over
seer, out of the money raised and collected as aforesaid, a sum
not exceeding seventy-five pounds current money per annum
as a salary, and so pro rata, during his continuance in office
and shall then take bond, which the said overseer, and any
other overseer to be appointed, shall and is hereby obliged to
enter into, with good and sufficient sureties, in the penalty of
two hundred pounds current money, payable to the said trus-

Trustees to
meet year-
ly, &c.