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TALBOT COUNTY.

court, county magistrate or sheriff, or any one who hath not
the qualification to be a member of the general assembly, if
elected, shall be capable to be chosen or act as a trustee afore-
said, nor shall any person be compellable to serve in less than
three years after he has served, or paid the said forfeiture for
not serving as a trustee aforesaid.

Trustees to
draw, &c.

SEC. 6. 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 collector of
Talbot county, for all or any part of the money by this act
assessed, levied and collected, as shall remain in his hands,
which the said trustees, or the major part of them, shall think
necessary, for the uses and purposes mentioned in this act.

To pur-
chase land,
&c.

SEC. 7. And be it 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 purchase
in fee simple, a quantity of land in the said county, not exceed-
ing thirty acres, or less than twenty-five; and the said trus-
tees, or the major part of them, appointed as aforesaid, are
hereby authorized, directed and required, to agree and con-
tract with a workman or workmen to undertake, erect, build,
and in a workmanlike manner to complete and finish, on the
said land when so purchased, good, strong, sufficient, and con-
venient houses, habitations and dwellings, for the reception of
the poor of said county, and of such vagrants, beggars, vaga-
bonds, and other offenders, as shall be committed by virtue of
this act, and they shall appropriate 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, beggars, 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.

And buy
beds, &c.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the said trustees, or the
major part of them, shall, and they are hereby authorized,
directed and required, after the houses, habitations and dwell-
ings aforesaid, shall be completely erected and finished, to buy
and purchase, for the use and employment of the poor of the
said county, and the vagrants, beggars, vagabonds, and other
offenders, who shall be committed by virtue of this act, suffi-
cient beds, bedding, working tools, kitchen utensils, cows,
horses, and other necessaries; and the said trustees are hereby