| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
with six per cent. for collecting the same, to be collected and
paid
as other county levies are, which said money, when collected, shall
be paid by the collector to the trustees of the poor, or to the order
of them, or a majority of them, under their common seal, who are
hereby authorised and required to receive and supply 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 their use and labour; for paying
a doctor for his salary and medicines; in providing men and women
servants to be under the direction of the overseer of such alms
and work-house, hereafter directed to be appointed; for purchasing
materials for the use and employment of all the poor, and all beggars,
vagrants, vagabonds, and other offenders, who shall be able
to work, and who shall be committed by virtue of this act. |
1817.
CHAP. 102. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
or a majority of
them, shall and they are hereby authorised, directed and required,
to meet together between the first and tenth day of April in each
year, and at such other times as they shall think 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 said alms and
work-house, and such other proper officers and servants as to them
shall appear necessary and expedient, for carrying on the business
of the said corporation; and they, or a majority of them, shall and
may agree, and they are hereby empowered, to hire and pay the
said overseer, out of the money levied and collected as aforesaid, a
sum not exceeding two hundred dollars current money per annum,
and so pro rate during his continuance in office, with sufficient
eating,
fire-wood, and house-room, for himself and family; but it is expressly
understood, that his family is at no time to exceed four persons
in number to be fed at the public expense; and shall then take
bond, which the said overseer and any other overseer, hereafter
to be appointed shall enter into, with good and sufficient securities,
in the penalty of one thousand dollars current money, payable to
the said trustees, and their successors, for the use of the poor, conditioned
as follows, to wit: " The condition of the above obligation is
such, that if the above bound A. B. as overseer of the alms and work
house in Caroline county, shall well and truly discharge his duty
in the said station, during his continuance therein, according to
the directions of the act of assembly, entitled, An act for the relief
of the poor of Caroline county, then the above obligation to be void,
otherwise to remain in full force and virtue in law." |
Meetings--Overseer
--bond. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
or a majority
of them, shall meet at the alms and work-house in the said county,
four times in the year, to wit: On the first Monday of April and
July, and on the second Monday of October and January, and
oftener if necessary, to make and ordain all such orders, rules
and by-laws, as they shall think necessary, for the better government
and support of such alms and work-house, and also for the
maintenance, support and employment, of all such poor persons as
shall be taken under their care, and of all vagrants, beggars, vagabonds,
and other offenders, that shall be committed thereto by virtue
of this act, all which ordinances, rules and by-laws, shall be
from time to time inviolably observed, by all persons concerned,
according to the tenor and effect thereof. |
Times of meeting. |
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