| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
such alms and work-house is hereby required to receive into the
said alms and work-house any poor appointed as aforesaid to be
received, and any vagrant, vagabond, beggar, and other idle, dissolute,
and disorderly person, so as aforesaid committed. |
1817.
CHAP. 102. |
14. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for
the trustees aforesaid, or a majority of them, to bind out any poor
orphan under their care in said alms-house to any discreet person
applying for said orphan or orphans, always having a regard to
give the preference to tradesmen or mechanics, by obliging said
applicants for any of the said orphans to sign a good and sufficient
indenture to learn said apprentice the occupation that he or she
may follow, and to find him or her good and sufficient meat, drink,
clothing, washing and lodging, and to give such education to him
or her as the master or mistress, and the trustees aforesaid, may
agree upon; and the said indenture, when so taken, shall be lodged
with the register of wills for Caroline county by any one of the said
trustees, within thirty days after the execution thereof, under the
penalty of ten dollars for every neglect, to be recovered before
any justice of the peace for said county wherein such orphan may
be bound; and the register of wills for said county shall and he is
hereby obliged to receive and record said indenture, as other indentures
heretofore taken for orphans bound out by the orphans
court of said county, for which he shall be allowed the sum of forty
cents current money for each and every indenture so recorded,
to be levied, collected and paid, as other county charges are. |
To bind out orphans. |
15. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the trustees aforesaid,
or a majority
of them, be and they are hereby authorised and empowered,
to have and keep any number of out-pensioners they may see proper,
provided the number shall not exceed fifteen, so as their allowance
shall not exceed thirty dollars each annually; Provided the
said trustees shall not allow any person an out-pension who is not
a fit object to be received into the said alms and work-house; And
provided also, that no trustee, overseer, or other officer of the said
alms and work-house, so long as he continues to act as such, shall
furnish the said house with any article of any kind whatsoever
whereby he may receive any of the monies levied for the use, benefit
or maintenance of the poor or other person committed to said
alms and work-house. |
To keep out pensioners.
Provisos. |
16. AND BE IT ENACTED, That whosoever shall
presume either
to set up a booth, stall, or other convenience, for the selling of
spirituous liquors, on the land purchased and occupied for the use
of the said lams and work-house, or shall commit any kind of trespass
thereon, or shall sell or dispose of any kind of spirituous liquors,
or other matter or thing whatsoever to, or purchase any
matter or thing whatsoever thereon, which shall belong to said
alms and work-house, from any poor, vagrants, beggars, vagabonds,
or other offenders, during their continuance in said alms
and work-house, contrary to the provisions of this act, such person,
upon conviction thereof in the county court of said county,
shall forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum of thirty dollars
current money, to be applied towards the support and maintenance
of the poor of Caroline county, under the direction of the
said trustees. |
Penalty for setting
up booths, &c. |
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