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directed and required to purchase the said quantity of land not
exceeding thirty acres, or less than twenty-five, as near and
convenient as may be to the court-house in said county ; and
the said trustees are hereby directed and required to keep a
fair, distinct, and clear account, in writing, of all the moneys
by them received and expended by virtue of this act, and 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
June court yearly, to be by the said justices inspected and
examined, which said accounts shall be lodged with the clerk
of the said court.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That after the expiration of the
said three years, the justices of Talbot county court aforesaid
for the time being, shall and they are hereby empowered to
assess and levy on all the property in the said county subject
and liable to assessment, at the time of laying their county
rate, a sum of current money not exceeding three shillings on
every hundred pounds of property as aforesaid, in the said
county, together with the collector's commission of four per
cent, for collecting the same; which said assessment shall be
made, levied, collected and paid, in the same manner as herein
before is directed ; which said money, when so as aforesaid
collected, shall be paid by the collector to the order of such
trustees, 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 for medicines, in
providing men and women servants to be under the direction
and management of the overseer of such alms and work-house
hereafter directed to be appointed, for and in purchasing mate-
rials for the use and employment of all the poor, and all beg-
gars, vagrants, vagabonds, and other offenders, who shall be
able to work, and who shall be committed by virtue of this act

Justices to
levy money,
&c.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted. That the said trustees, or the
major part of them, shall and they are hereby authorized
directed and enjoined, to meet together between the first anc
tenth day of November yearly, and at all such other times at
they shall judge necessary, at the alms and work-house in the
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
corporation, and they, or the major part of them, shall and
may agree, and they are hereby empowered to pay the said
overseer, out of the money raised and collected as aforesaid,
sum not exceeding seventy-five pounds current money per

Trustees to
meet year-
ly, &c.