| 1817.
CHAP. 102. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
often as any one of the said trustees for the poor shall die, remove
out of the county, or refuse to qualify as aforesaid, or become incapable
of acting, the trustees for the time being, then surviving
and remaining within the said county, or the majority of them, are
hereby authorised and required to elect and choose one of the inhabitants
of said county in the place and room of such trustee, and so
fill up the full number of trustees for such alms and work-house,
which persons so elected and chosen from time to time, are always
to be qualified in the same manner as herein before directed. |
Persons appointed
to act, under a penalty.
Proviso. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every person by
this act appointed
as a trustee for the poor, or who shall hereafter be appointed as
such, pursuant to the directions thereof, or 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 twenty dollars current money;
Provided, that no minister of the gospel, attorney, practising
physician, judge of the county or orphans court, or sheriff, shall be
obliged to accept the office of trustee aforesaid, or forfeit as aforesaid
for refusing to accept and take upon him the same, nor shall
any person be compelled to serve in less than three years after he
has served, or paid the forfeiture for not serving, as a trustee as
aforesaid. |
House, &c. vested
in trustees. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the houses now
erected and called
and known by the name of the Poor-House of Caroline county, and
the land thereunto belonging, are hereby declared to be vested in
the said trustees, and their successors for ever, as their estate and
inheritance, for the uses and purposes by his act expressed and directed,
one part 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 in virtue of this act. |
To purchase bedding,
&c. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
or a majority of
them, shall and they are hereby authorised and directed, to purchase
for the use and employment of the poor of said county, and the vagrants,
beggars, vagabonds, and other offenders, who shall be committed,
by virtue of this act, sufficient beds, bedding, working tools,
kitchen utensils, cows, horses, and other necessaries; and the said
trustees are hereby directed and required, to keep a fair, distinct,
and clear account, in writing, of all the monies by them received
and expended in 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 levy court of said county, at one of their sessions between
the first Monday in April and the first Monday in June, yearly,
and every year, to be by the said court inspected and examined,
which said accounts shall be lodged with the clerk of Caroline
county court. |
| Annual levy. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of
the levy court of the
county aforesaid, at some one of their sessions after the first Monday
of April next, and yearly and every year thereafter, shall and
they are hereby empowered and directed, to assess and levy on the
assessable property in said county, at the time of making their
county levy, such sum of money as the said trustees, or a majority
of them, shall or may deem absolutely necessary and requisite to
carry into effect the intentions and provisions of this act, together |
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