| 1805.
CHAP. 7.
Passed Jan. 25, 1806. |
ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. VII.
An Act to authorise the Justices of the Levy Court of Washington
County to assess a sum of money on the Taxable Property
of said
County for the purposes therein mentioned. Lib.
TH. No. 1, fol. 7.
See 1807, ch. 13. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented by the petition of the
trustees of the
poor of Washington county, that the poor-house of said county is
too small for the accommodation of the poor and persons of insane
mind, and that for the want of such accommodations they have frequently
been unable to receive such applicants: And whereas the
monies heretofore levied have not been sufficient to erect a smoke-house
and purchase a burial-ground for sid poor-house; therefore, |
Levy authorised
for erection of additional
buildings
for poor. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the levy court of Washington county shall and they are hereby directed
and empowered, to assess and levy, in the year eighteen
hundred and six, in all the property in said county subject and
liable to assessment, a sum of money, not exceeding twelve hundred
dollars, which shall be paid over to the trustees of the poor of said
county, who shall apply it to the erection of such additional buildings
as they may deem necessary, and also to the purchase of a lot
or lots for a burial-ground for said poor-house. |
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Passed Jan. 25, 1806. |
CHAP. VIII.
An Act to authorise and empower the Levy Court of Worcester County
to levy annually s sum of money on the Assessable Property
of said
County for the purposes therein mentioned. Lib.
TH. No. 1, fol. 7. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS Joseph Tilghman, by his petition to this
general assembly,
hath set forth, that he has been afflicted in a manner so as
to render him incapable of obtaining a livelihood; that he has a
daughter names Betsy Tilghman, about the age of seventeen years,
who has been an helpless object for the last fifteen years: And
whereas John Toadvine and Severn Tarr, and Elijah Tarr in behalf
of his daughter Anne Tarr, of said county, by their petitions
to this general assembly have also set forth, that they are poor and
infirm, and are rendered unable to support themselves by labour,
and praying that an act may pass authorising the levy court of
Worcester county to levy a sum of money on the assessable property
of said county for the support and maintenance of the said
Joseph Tilghman and Betsy Tilghman his daughter, John Toadvine,
Severn Tarr, and Elijah Tarr, in behalf of his said daughter
Anne Tarr; and the facts stated in the said petitions appearing to
be true, therefore, |
Levy for support
of certain persons. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the levy court of Worcester county shall be and they are hereby
directed and empowered, at their levy court annually, so long as
they shall see cause, to assess and levy on the assessable property
of the said county, a sum of money, not exceeding one hundred and
twenty-five dollars, for the support and maintenance of the said
Joseph Tilghman, and Betsy Tilghman his daughter, John Toadvine
and Severn Tarr, and Elijah Tarr in behalf of his said daughter
Anne Tarr, 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.
This act, as far as it relates to Joseph
and Betsy Tilghman, repealed by 1808,
ch. 25. |
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