POOR.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act for the relief of the Poor of
Queen Anne's County.— 1813, ch. 166.
Merged in 1814, ch. 48.

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act for the relief of
the Poor of Queen Anne's County. — 1814, ch. 48.
See 1837, ch. 201.
SEC. 1, 2. Confirms the purchase by the trustees of the poor, of a tract
of land called Paschal's Chance.

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SEC. 3. And, whereas the legislature of this state hath put
at the disposal of the trustees aforesaid the sum of six hundred
dollars, to be distributed to out-pensioners in said county ;
therefore, Be it enacted, That the trustees aforesaid be and
they are hereby authorized and empowered, in their discre-
tion, to keep any number of out-pensioners, and to allow to
each of such pensioners an annual pension not exceeding
thirty dollars, to be paid out of said six hundred dollars, and
at such times as they may direct.

To keep
out- pen-
sioncrs.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That it shall be the duty of the
trustees aforesaid, to distribute the said sum of six hundred
dollars among the poor, in the election districts of said county,
agreeably to the population of said districts.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act for the relief of the Poor of
Queen Anne's County.— 1816, ch. 167.
Temporary.

AN ACT to repeal the eighteenth section of an Act, entitled, an Act for
the relief of the Poor of Queen Anne's County. — 1822, ch. 1 18.

Distribu-
tion to out-
pensioners.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the eighteenth section of an act, entitled, an act for the relief
of the poor of Queen Anne's county, passed November session,
one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, chapter fifteen,
be, and the same is hereby repealed.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act for the relief of the Poor of
Queen Anne's County.— 1828, ch. 173.

Repeal.

WHEREAS, persons received into the alms and work-house
of Queen Anne's county, are sometimes possessed of incon-
siderable portions of property, real or personal, and it seems
reasonable that the profits to be derived from such property
should be applied to the use of the public, so long as the

Preamble.

owners thereof are supported by the county ; therefore,
SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the trustees for the poor of Queen Anne's county be in-
vested with full power and authority to take into their care

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Property
belonging
to paupers
to be under
care of
trustees.