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WASHINGTON COUNTY.

for any person authorized and appointed by such justice, to
apprehend, or cause to be apprehended and committed to the
said work-house, any vagrants, vagabonds, beggars, and other
idle, dissolute and disorderly persons, found loitering or resid-
ing in said county, who follow no labour, trade, occupation or
business, and have no visible means of subsistence whereby to
acquire an honest livelihood, there to be kept at hard labour
for any time not exceeding three months ; and the overseer of
such alms and work-house shall be obliged to receive any poor
appointed as aforesaid to be received, and any vagrant, vaga-
bond, beggar, and other idle, dissolute and disorderly person,
so as aforesaid committed.

Poor, &c,
to wear a
badge, &c.

SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That every person who shall be
received into the said alms and work-house, and there receive
relief, shall, upon the shoulder of the right sleeve of the up-
permost garment of every such person, in an open and visible
manner, wear the following badge, to wit : the letters P. W.
cut in red or blue cloth, as by the overseer of the poor shall
be directed and appointed ; and if such poor person shall
neglect or refuse to wear such mark or badge as aforesaid, and
in manner as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for any one
of the trustees of such county to punish every such offender
for every such offence, either by ordering his or her usual
allowance to be abridged, suspended or withdrawn, and kept
to hard labour for any number of days not exceeding twenty,
as to the said trustee shall seem meet; and if any overseer of
the poor shall receive into his said alms and work-house, or
shall support any such person, not having and wearing such
badge or mark as aforesaid, and be thereof convicted upon the
oath of one or more credible witness or witnesses, he shall
forfeit and pay the sum of thirty dollars.

Penalty on
keeping
booth, &c.

SEC. 18. And be it enacted, That whosoever shall presume,
either to set up a booth, stall, or other convenience for the
selling of strong liquors, on the land purchased for the use of
the said alms and work-house, or shall commit any kind of
trespass thereon, or shall sell or dispose of any strong liquor,
or other matter or thing whatsoever to, or purchase any matter
or thing whatsoever from, any poor, or other person enter-
tained in the said alms and work-house, shall, for every such
offence, forfeit and pay the sum of forty dollars.

Sheriffs &c.
to aid trus-
tees, &c.

SEC. 19. And be it enacted, That all sheriffs, constables and
all other officers and ministers of justice, shall be aiding and
assisting to the said trustees for the poor in the said counties,
and to all such officers as shall be employed by them, as by
this act is directed, in the execution and performance of the
said service.

General is-
sue pleads-
ble, &c.

SEC. 20. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons
shall, at any time or times, be sued or prosecuted for any