POOR.

sembly, if elected, shall be capable to be chosen or act as a
trustee aforesaid, nor shall any person be compellable to serve
in less than three years after he hath served, or paid the said
forfeiture for not serving, as a trustee aforesaid.

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SEC. 7. And, for enabling the said trustees to purchase land,
and erect an alms and work-house, in the said county ; Be it
enacted, That the said trustees, or the major part of them, be,
and they are hereby authorized and empowered, from time to
time, as occasion shall require, to draw upon the sheriff of Saint
Mary's county, in whose hands the tobacco aforesaid, so as
aforesaid to be assessed and levied, 'or such part thereof as
shall, by virtue of this act, be so assessed and levied, shall re-
main, for so much of the said tobacco as the said trustees, or
the major part of them, shall from time to time think it neces-
sary to draw for the uses and purposes directed by this act.

Trustees to
draw, &c.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the said trustees, or
the major part of them, appointed as aforesaid, shall, and they
are hereby authorized, directed and required, to buy and pur-
chase in fee, a quantity of land in the said county, not exceed-
ing one hundred acres ; and the said trustees, or the major
part of them, appointed as aforesaid, are hereby authorized,
directed and required, to agree and contract with a workman
or workmen to undertake, erect, build, and in a workmanlike
manner to complete and finish, on the said land, when so pur-
chased, good, strong, sufficient and convenient houses, habita-
tions and dwellings, for the reception of the poor of said county,
and of such vagrants, beggars, vagabonds and other offenders, as
shall be committed by virtue of this act, and they shall appro-
priate one part thereof, to be called the alms-house, to and for
the reception and lodging of the poor of the said county, and
another part or parts thereof, to be called the work-house, to
and for the reception and lodging of all such vagrants, beg-
gars, vagabonds and other offenders, as shall be committed by
virtue of this act ; and the aforesaid land when bought, and
the aforesaid houses, habitations and dwellings, when built
shall be, and they are hereby enacted and declared to be,
vested in the said trustees, as their estate and inheritance, for
the uses and purposes by this act directed and expressed.

To pur-
chase land,
&c.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the said trustees, or
the major part of them, appointed as aforesaid, shall and they
are hereby authorized, directed and required, after the houses,
habitations and dwellings aforesaid, shall be completely erected
and finished, to buy and purchase, for the use and employment
of the poor, vagrants, beggars, vagabonds and other offenders,
who shall bo committed by virtue of this act, sufficient beds,
bedding, working tools, kitchen utensils, cows, horses, and
other necessaries; and the said trustees are hereby directed
and required to purchase the said quantity of land, not ex-

And buy
beds, &c.