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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. XXXIII.
An Act authorising Nathaniel Rochester, late Sheriff and Collector
of
Washington County, to complete his Collection.
Lib. TH. No. 1,
fol. 226. |
1806.
CHAP. 33.
Passed Jan. 3, 1807. |
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CHAP. XXXIV.
A Further Supplement to an act, * entitled, An act for the relief
of
the
Poor in Talbot County. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 227.
Other acts, Nov. 1809, ch. 84; Dec. 1813, ch. 177; and 1816, ch. 108. |
Passed Jan. 3, 1807.
* 1785, ch. 15. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
the levy court of Talbot county, or a majority of them, be and
they are hereby authorised and required, on their next annual
meeting, to elect, nominate and choose, five persons of good character
of said county, not related either in consanguinity or affinity
to each other, as trustees for the poor of said county, and that
the trustees, so appointed, be and are hereby empowered, with full
and sufficient authority, to discharge the several offices, duties and
trusts, reposed in them, and shall qualify in the same manner as is
required by the act to which this is a supplement. |
Levy court authorised
to appoint
trustees of poor. |
2. AND, to perpetuate the succession of the
aforesaid number of
five trustees for the poor in the said county, BE IT ENACTED, That
as often as any one of the said trustees for the poor shall die, or
remove himself out of the county, refuse to qualify himself as required
by the act to which this is a supplement, or become incapable
of acting, the levy court of said county, on their first meeting
thereafter, are hereby authorised and required to elect, nominate
and choose, one of the inhabitants of the county, of good character,
in the place and room of such trustee, and so to fill up the full
number of trustees for such alms and work-house, the which persons,
so elected and chosen from time to time, are always to be
qualified in the same manner as before directed by the act to which
this is a supplement. |
Vacancies how to
be filled. |
3. AND, to prevent individuals from being
unreasonably burthened
with the act to which this is a supplement, as trustees for
the poor, BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court of said county shall
and may annually elect and choose a person of good character
from amongst the inhabitants of said county, to be a trustee for the
poor of that county, in the stead of the first named or eldest of the
said trustees of the same county, which said first named or eldest
trustee shall be and is by virtue hereof, thenceforth discharged
from his office. |
To choose one
trustee annually. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That so much of the
act to which this
is a supplement as is contrary to, or inconsistent with, this act, be
and the same is hereby repealed. |
Part of an act repealed. |
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CHAP. XXXV.
An Act to lay out and open a Road near the Three Bridges, in Caroline
County. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 228. |
Passed Jan. 3, 1807. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
by the petition
of sundry inhabitants of Caroline county, that they suffer
many inconveniencies from the want of a road, to commence at or
near a red house, the property of Daniel Swiggott, on the main
road leading from the Three Bridges to Collin's Cross Roads, and
running in the straightest direction that the nature of the ground, |
Preamble. |
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