| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
trustees of the poor-house of Baltimore county, and all vacancies
occasioned by the death, resignation, or refusal to act, or removal
out of the county, shall be filled in the like manner; and the
said trustees shall meet together at the court-house of said county,
on the first day of May next, to commence the duties herein assigned
to them, and when so met each of them shall take an oath,
or affirmation, that he will carefully and diligently execute the several
powers and duties assigned to him as trustee aforesaid, according
to the best of his skill and judgment. |
1817.
CHAP. 87. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That whenever the said
five trustees
shall have qualified as aforesaid, all the powers, authority and duties,
heretofore by law (a) vested in or imposed upon the justices of
the levy court of Baltimore county, relating to the said poor-house
as such, or as a work-house, and its lands, the general management
and concerns thereof shall be and the same are hereby transferred
to and vested in the said trustees, and their successors, by whom,
or a majority of whom, the said powers, authority and duties, shall
be used, exercised and performed, in as full and ample a manner as
the same might have been heretofore done by the levy court aforesaid;
and all the books, papers and proceedings, of the levy court
aforesaid, respecting the same, which the said commissioners shall
find necessary or useful for them to possess, shall be forthwith delivered
over to them.
(a) See 1805, ch. 95; 1807, ch.
46; 1811, ch. 111; and 1816, ch. 201. |
Powers heretofore
vested in levy
court transferred
to trustees. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the trustees aforesaid
shall be entitled
to receive the sum of two dollars per day for each day they
shall meet together in the discharge of the duties herein required of
them, and shall have power to allow such and so many out pensioners
of said poor-house, as they may consider reasonable and proper,
the allowance for whose support shall not exceed in the whole the
rate of forty dollars each.
See 1799, ch. 65, and Nov. 1809, ch. 84. |
Their allowance
out pensioners. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees
shall annually
make out a full and fair account of all the public money by them received
and expended, which with the vouchers therefor, and a list
of the number of paupers and other sustained by the said institution,
together with an estimate of the sum or amount necessary for
the following year's support thereof, which shall be assessed and
levied by the said levy court, and collected as other county charges
and paid over to the said trustees for the paupers aforesaid. |
Accounts of money
received and
expended to be
made annually. |
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CHAP. LXXXVIII.
An Additional Supplement to the act*, entitled, An act to Incorporate
a Company to make a Turnpike Road from Elkton to Christiana
Bridge. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 582. |
Passed Feb. 2, 1818.
* Nov. 1812, ch. 133. |
WHEREAS, it is represented to this general assembly
that doubts
exist whether the subscribers to the Elk and Christiana turnpike,
who have neglected to make payment of the sums by them subscribed,
can be compelled by law to make such payments; |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
in all cases whatsoever, where any subscriber as aforesaid hath been
required by public notice, as directed in the act to which this is a
further supplement, to pay any part of his subscription, and hath
neglected so to do, and in all cases hereafter, when any person upon |
Suits may be instituted
to compel
payment of subscriptions. |
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