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QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY.

and possession, all the property, real or personal, of any per-
son who has been admitted, or shall hereafter be admitted, into
the alms and work-house of the said county, and the same to
possess, occupy and use, and the profits thereof to apply to the
maintenance and support of the poor of Queen Anne's county,
which authority and power shall remain with the said trustees
over such property, and the profits thereof, as long as the
owner of the same shall continue in the said alms and work-
house.

An ACT relating to Indigent Out-Pensionera in Queen Anne's County.
1837, cb. 201.

Authority

to apply

$1,000

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the trustees of the poor of Queen Anne's county, be, and
they are hereby authorized to expend for the relief of such
persons as the said trustees shall judge proper to place on the
list of indigent out-pensioners of said county, the sum of one
thousand dollars, instead of the sum of six hundred dollars
heretofore limited therefor by law.

Repealing
clause.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of acts
inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be, and the same
are hereby repealed.

ROADS.
AN ACT relating to the Public Roads in Queen Anne's County.— 1799,
ch. 70.

WHEREAS, the present laws relating to the public roads in
Queen Anne's county are in part inadequate to the purposes

Preamble.

for which they were intended ; therefore,
SEC. 2. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the justices of the levy court for Queen Anne's county,

Justices to
levy money,
&c.

or a majority of them, at their annual meeting at the time for
holding their levy court at the court-house in Centrevllle, shall
levy, by equal assessment, on the assessable property within
the said county, a sum of money not exceeding three shillings
on every hundred pounds of assessable property, to be col-
lected as other county taxes, and paid to the justices of the
levy court, or to their order, and shall be applied towards
straightening, amending and keeping in repair, the public
roads in the said county ; and the said justices, or a majority
of them, shall have full power and authority to appropriate the
funds arising from the said tax to the public roads in the said
county, and shall apportion the same in just proportions among
all the public roads of the said county, regarding the situation
and quantity of labour necessary for the improvement of such
roads.