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SAINT MARY'S COUNTY.

cecding one hundred acres, as near and convenient as may be
to Leonardtown, in said county ; and the said trustees are
hereby obliged, directed and required, to keep a fair, distinct,
and clear account in writing, of all the moneys by them ex-
pended and paid by virtue of this act, und to return a true
copy thereof, and shew and produce the vouchers to support
the same, to the justices of the said county, at their November
court, to be by the said justices inspected and examined.

Justices to
levy to-
bacco, &c.

SEC. 10. And be it further enacted. That after the expiration
of the said three years, the justices of Saint Mary's county
court aforesaid for the time being, shall and they are hereby
empowered to assess and levy on the taxable inhabitants of the
said county, at the time of laying their county levy, a quantity
of tobacco, not exceeding fifteen pounds by the poll, on each
and every of the taxable inhabitants in the said county, to-
gether with the sheriff's salary of five per cent, for collecting
the same, which said assessment shall be made, levied, col-
lected and paid, in the same manner as herein before by this
uct is directed ; which said tobacco, when so as aforesaid col-
lected, shall be paid by the sheriff to the order of such trus-
tees, or the major part of them, under their common seal, who
are hereby authorized and required to 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 medicines; in
providing men and women servants, to be under the man-
agement and direction of an overseer of such alms and work-
house, hereafter to be appointed ; and in purchasing mate-
rials for the use and employment of all the poor, and all
beggars, vagrants, vagabonds and other offenders, who shall be
able to work, and who shall be committed by virtue of this act.

Trustees to
meet &c.

SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the said trus-
tees, or the major part of them, shall and they are hereby
authorized, obliged, directed and enjoined, to meet together on
the first Monday in May yearly, and at all such other times
as they shall judge necessary, at the alms and work-house in
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, as a salary, out of the tobacco and money raised und col-
lected as aforesaid, a sum not exceeding eighty pounds current
money per annum, and so pro rata, during his continuance in
office, and shall then take, and the said overseer, and every