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Trustees
appointed,
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ture within this province, and by that name they and any of
them, and their successors, shall and they are hereby enabled to
take, hold, possess and enjoy, any gift, donation or present,
which shall or may hereafter be given, devised or bequeathed,
by any person or persons whatsoever, to them, or any of them,
for or towards the support and maintenance of the poor in the
said county ; and they, or any of them, may receive by way of
subscription, any sum or sums of money which shall or may be
given for the better and more speedy promoting the benefit and
good by this act intended ; and that they have full power, autho-
rity, lawful capacity and ability, to purchase, take, hold, receive,
enjoy and have, to them and their successors for ever, any lands,
tenements and hereditaments, not exceeding the yearly value
of one thousand pounds sterling, of any person or persons
whatsoever, and are hereby empowered and authorized to use
one common seal in their business relating to the said corpora-
tion, and the same, if necessary, to change and alter ; and that
the said persons so incorporated, the longest livers and suc-
cessors of them, shall be the true, sole and undoubted trustees,
in perpetual succession, for ever, to be continued in way
and manner hereafter specified, with full and absolute power,
liberty and authority, in the making and ordaining such laws,
orders and rules, for the belter relieving, regulating and set-
ting the poor to work, and punishing vagrants, beggars, vaga-
bonds and other offenders, and for the good government of the
said alms and work-house in their said county, as to them and
their successors shall, from time to time, seem most fit and re-
quisite, all which shall be observed by the overseer of such
alms and work-house, and by all poor, beggars, vagrants, vaga-
bonds and other offenders, in such alms and work-house, under
the penalties therein contained ; Provided always, that the
said rules, laws and orders, be no wise contrary to the laws of
this province.
The power of appointment is vested in the Levy Court by 1837, ch. 32.
SEC. 5. See preceding note.
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Penalty for
refuting to
act, &c.
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SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That every person by this
act appointed as a trustee for the poor, or that shall hereafter
be nominated and appointed as such pursuant to the directions
hereof, and who shall wilfully refuse or delay to take upon
him the said office, shall forfeit and pay, for every such refusal
or delay, the sum of ten pounds current money ; Provided,
that no member of the upper or lower house of assembly, cler-
gyman, attorney, or practising physician, be obliged to accept
of the office of trustee aforesaid, or forfeit as aforesaid for re-
fusing to accept and take upon him the same ; and that no
provincial or county magistrate or sheriff, or any one who hath
not the qualification to be a member of the lower house of as-
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