| 1804.
Passed Jan. 5, 1805. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. XIX.
A Further Additional Supplement to an act, (a) entitled,
An act for
the relief of the Poor in Calvert County. Lib.
JG. No. 4, fol. 544.
(a) 1790,
ch. 26. Other acts, 1795, ch. 12, 1798, ch. 74, and 1799, ch. 65. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS doubts have arisen whether the vacancies
are legally
filled up which have happened in the board of the trustees for the
poor of Calvert county, and the general assembly deeming it proper
to remove all doubt on that subject; therefore, |
Acts done by trustees
declared valid. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
all and singular the acts and proceedings of those who have been,
since the passage of the original act to which this is a supplement,
appointed trustees for the poor of Calvert county, which have been
done in their official capacity as trustees, shall be, and are hereby
declared to be, as valid and effectual as if the said trustees had been
legally appointed trustees for the poor of Calvert county under the
existing laws. |
Persons declared
trustees. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That those who are now
appointed,
and now acting as the trustees for the poor of Calvert county, shall
be, and are hereby declared to be, trustees for the poor of Calvert
county until the next meeting of the levy court of said county,
which said levy court shall thereupon be authorised and empowered
to appoint three discreet and sensible men, residing in the county
aforesaid, trustees for the poor of Calvert county, to act as such
until the next meeting of the levy court appointed by law for the
purpose of laying the county charges for said county; and the said
levy court shall, at the said meeting so appointed for laying the
county charges, and at the meeting so appointed in every year
thereafter, appoint three sensible and discreet men, trustees for the
poor of Calvert county, who, or a majority of them, shall have all
the powers and authorities given to trustees for the poor of Calvert
county by the original act, and the several supplements thereto;
and in case of death, resignation, refusal to act, removal out of
the county, or disqualification, of any of the trustees so to be appointed,
the said trustees, or the remainder of them, shall be authorised
and empowered to fill up such vacancies, and the trustee
or trustees so by them to be appointed, shall act as such until the
next meeting of the levy court for the county aforesaid appointed
by law for laying the county charges. |
Allowance to
trustees. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Calvert county
shall be authorised and empowered to allow each of the said trustees
so as aforesaid to be appointed, a sum of money for their services,
not exceeding two dollars for each day he shall attend on the
business of his office as trustee to be levied and collected at the
same time, and the same manner, as other county charges. |
Levy for discharging
balance due
for building poor-house. |
5. AND, whereas suits are now depending against
a former collector
of Calvert county, and his securities, to recover a sum of money
levied for the use of the trustees for the poor of Calvert county,
for the purpose of building the poor-house for the said county, and
it being doubtful whether the said sum of money which may be recovered
on the said suits may be sufficient to pay the balance due
for building the said poor-house, BE IT ENACTED, That upon the
final determination of the said suits, if it shall be found by the levy
court of Calvert county that the sum of money recovered and obtained
from the said collector, and his securities, shall not be sufficient |
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