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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. LXIX.
An Act to enlarge further the powers of the Trustees of the Poor
in
the several Counties therein mentioned.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 645.
Other acts, 1791, ch. 21; 1793, ch.
24, s. 3. 1799, ch. 65; Nov. 1809, ch. 84. |
1804.
CHAP. 69
Passed Jan. 19, 1805. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
all applications by and on behalf of persons desirous of being
maintained out of the poor-houses in Anne-Arundel, Frederick,
Prince-George's and Harford counties, shall hereafter be made
to the trustees of the poor, and in case the said trustees, or a majority
of them, of the said respective counties, at their meeting next
after any such application, shall be of opinion that the circumstances
of the applicant are such as to render a situation in the poor-house
particularly unsuitable, the said trustees, or a majority of
them, are hereby directed to recommend such application to the
levy court of their respective county, and the said levy courts are
hereby respectively authorised and empowered, if they shall also
be of opinion that the circumstances of the applicant are such as to
render a situation in the poor-house particularly unsuitable, to levy
a sum of money for the support of said applicant out of the poor-house,
not exceeding forty dollars for any one applicant; provided,
that the number of out-pensioners shall not exceed twenty in any
one county in any one year; and the money so levied shall be collected
as other monies are collected for the support of the poor, and
shall be paid to the said out-pensioners, or any other person whom
the levy courts respectively shall direct.
2 This section repealed after 1st January 1807, by 1805, ch. 20. |
Applications of
persons in certain
counties to be
maintained out of
the poor-house to
be made to trustees. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That this act shall
continue and be in
full force until the first day of October, eighteen hundred and ten,
and until the next session of assembly thereafter.
Further continued, &c. See note under ch. 67. |
Duration. |
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CHAP. LXX.
An Act to empower the Levy Court of Dorchester County to appoint
a
Constable for the Village of New-Market, in the
said County. Lib.
JG. No. 4, fol. 646. |
Passed Jan. 19, 1805. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the levy court of Dorchester county, at their annual meeting, shall
appoint a constable for the village of New-Market, and that the
county clerk shall signify such appointment, under his hand, and
deliver the same to the sheriff, within five days after such appointment,
and the sheriff shall, within ten days after such delivery, deliver
the same to the person so appointed, or leave the same at his
usual place of abode, under the penalty of four dollars, on the clerk
or sheriff respectively neglecting herein, to be recovered before any
single magistrate as in case of small debts, to the use of the county. |
Authorised to appoint
a constable. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the constable so
appointed in virtue
of this act shall be an inhabitant of said village, and that he
shall be obliged to execute all warrants and precepts to him directed,
and to prevent the tumultuous and disorderly meeting of slaves and
negroes within the said village, and within the limits of three miles
of the said village, and to punish, with moderate correction, under
the direction of any justice of the peace, all such negro and other
slaves as shall be found wandering or strolling about the streets in
the night-time, or frequenting the houses of other persons within |
Person appointed
to be an inhabitant
of village—
his duties. |
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