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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
they shall see cause, to assess and levy on the assessable property
of the said county, a sum of money, not exceeding eighty dollars,
for the support and maintenance of the said Aaron, Thomas, Betsy
and Abigail Faskey, and that the same be collected annually by
the collector or collectors of Worcester county, and paid to such
person as the levy court of said county shall or may direct. |
1803
CHAP. 38. |
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CHAP. XXXIX.
An Act to extend the powers of the Trustees of the Poor of Montgomery
County. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 390. |
Passed Dec. 31. |
WHEREAS Nicholas Smith, by his petition to this
general assembly,
hath set forth, that he is a very poor man, and is now arrived to
the age of seventy years, and that by his advanced age and bodily
infirmities he is unable to support himself by labour, and prays
that an act may pass for his support out of the poor-house; and the
prayer of the petitioner appearing reasonable, therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for the trustees of the poor of the said
county of Montgomery, if they shall be of opinion that the peculiar
circumstances of the said Nicholas Smith are such as to render a
situation in the poor-house particularly unsuitable for him, to support
him as an out-pensioner, in addition to the number now allowed
by the act, (a) entitled, An act to enlarge the powers of the
trustees of the poor in the several counties therein designated, and
to allow the said Nicholas Smith an annual pension, not exceeding
thirty dollars, to be paid to him at such time or times as the said
trustees shall direct; the amount of which said pension shall be levied
in the same manner as the other expenses of the poor-house in
the said county are.
(a) 1799, ch. 65. See 1800, ch. 73. |
Nicholas Smith
may be supported
as an out-pensioner. |
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CHAP. XL.
An Act authorising a Lottery to raise a sum of money for deepening
and widening a Well in Taney-Town, in Frederick
County. Lib.
JG. No. 4, fol. 390. |
Passed Dec. 31. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Taney-town, in Frederick county,
that great inconveniencies have resulted to the inhabitants thereof,
and to travellers passing through said town, for the want of water,
and have prayed that a law may pass to raise a sum of money,
not exceeding five hundred dollars, for the purpose of deepening
and widening the well in said town; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for John McKaleb, John Crapster, Richard
Brooke, Joseph Little, Henry Swope, Thomas Gibson and
Michael Null, or a majority of them, to propose a scheme or schemes
of a lottery for raising a sum of money, not exceeding five hundred
dollars, and to sell and dispose of the tickets thereof; provided the
said John McKaleb, John Crapster, Richard Brooke, Joseph Little,
Henry Swope, Thomas Gibson and Michael Null, or such majority
of them as shall undertake to act under this law, shall, before
the disposal or sale of any ticket or tickets in said lottery, give
their bond to the state of Maryland, in the penalty of one thousand
dollars, conditioned that they will well and truly apply so much of |
Scheme may be
proposed--bond to
be given. |
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