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it shall be, in any court of judicature within this state, 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 of present, which shall or may hereafter be
given, devised or bequeathed, by any person or persons what-
soever, 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 in-
tended ; and that they have full power, authority and ability,
to purchase, take, hold, receive, enjoy and have, to them and
their successors for ever, any lands, tenements and heredita-
ments, not exceeding the yearly value of five hundred pounds
current money, and are hereby empowered and authorized to
use one common seal in theif business relating to the said cor-
poration, and the same, if necessafy, to change and alter ; and
that the said persons so incorporated, or the longest livers and
successors of them, shall be the true 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 better 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, think most fit and
requisite, 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 mentioned ; Provided always, that
the said rules, laws and orders, be no ways contrary to the
laws of this state.
The power of appointment is transferred to the levy court by 1806, ch. 34,
and the powers of the levy court are transferred to the county commis-
sioners, by 1830, ch. 38, ante page 2219.
SEC. 4. See preceding note.
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SEC. 5. And be it 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
thereof, 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 general assembly, clergyman, attorney,
or practising physician, be obliged to accept of the office of
trustee aforesaid, or forfeit as aforesaid for refusing to accept
and take upon him the same, and that no judge of the general
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