| 1817.
CHAP. 102.
May remove overseer. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
or a majority
of them, shall and they are hereby directed and empowered, to remove
such overseer, and all other officers to be by them appointed
in pursuance of this act, at their discretion, and to choose others
in their place. |
Overseer to keep
a list of poor. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said overseer
shall keep a
fair and regular list of all poor, and of all beggars, vagrants, vagabonds,
and other offenders, who shall be placed in, or committed to
the said alms and work-house, and shall also, upon oath or affirmation,
deliver a fair and regular account, in writing, of all materials
and other things coming into his hands as overseer aforesaid,
and of all expenses and charges attending their maintenance and
support, and of all monies received by him from the sale of the
produce of their labour, and otherwise as overseer aforesaid, and
shall lay the said lists, statements and accounts, before the said
trustees, or a majority of them, at their meetings at the times by
this act directed, or oftener if by them required. |
May compel them
to work. |
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the overseer may
compel and
oblige any of the said poor, beggars, vagrants, vagabonds, and
other offenders, in the said alms and work-house, if of sufficient
ability, to work and labour, and the produce of their labour he is
hereby directed and empowered to sell, and apply the money arising
from such sale towards their maintenance and support. |
Disorderly persons
may be committed
to work-house. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That upon complaint
made that any
person, from his or her disorderly conduct, gives disturbance to his
or her neighbours, and is likely to become chargeable to said county,
it shall and may be lawful for any justice of the peace of said
county, if upon hearing the party he shall judge the complain to
be well founded, to commit such disorderly person residing within
said county to the said work-house, for any time not exceeding
three months, unless he or she shall find security at the discretion
of the aforesaid justice of the peace, in any sum not exceeding
thirty dollars, for his or her good behaviour for six months; and
also upon complaint and due proof made made by the overseer of said
alms and work-house, to any one of the trustees, that any one in
the said work-house have demeaned him or herself in a disorderly
manner, or hath refused to do and perform his or her daily labour
and task, or hath refused or neglected to obey, keep and observe,
any of the ordinances, rules and by-laws, of the said corporation,
then and in such case any one of the said trustees may order and
direct the person, so demeaning him or herself, to be put on short
allowance for any number of days not exceeding twenty. |
Trustees to direct
what poor shall be
received into alms-house.
Vagrants. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for
any two of the said trustees to direct and appoint, under their hands
in writing, what poor shall be received into such alms and work-house,
and it shall and may be lawful to any one justice of the
peace for said county to authorise any constable of said county to
apprehend and bring before him, or any other justice of the peace
for said county, any vagrant, vagabond, beggar, or other idle, dissolute,
and disorderly person, found loitering or residing in said
county, who follow no labour, trade, occupation or business, and
who have no visible means of sustenance, to be by said justice of
the peace committed to the work-house, there to be kept at hard
labour, for any time not exceeding six months; and the overseer of |
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