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HORATIO SHARPE, Esq; Governor.
Robert Porter, David Covenower, and Griffith Williams,
of Cæcil county; Nicholas Bowdel, Hezekiah
McCotter, and Robert Parkinson, of Dorchester county; George Harrington,
William Dockery, Joseph
Nevill, William Horn, Thomas Farrell, and Joseph Harris, of Queen-Anne's
county; William Greenwood,
Benjamin Steed, Robert Phillips, John Briscoe, and Patrick Drugan, of Kent
county; Benjamin
Buckler, John Dart, Alexander Anderson, and Edward Power, of St. Mary's
county; and John Long,
of Baltimore county. |
1768.
CHAP.
XXVI. |
CHAP. XXVII.
An ACT for licensing ordinary keepers, hawkers, peddlers, and petty
chapmen.
This act was to continue three years,
&c. It was afterwards continued for one year, &c. by the
act of 1771, ch. 21, and for seven years, &c. by the act of June, 1773,
ch. 2. It expired with the session
of June, 1780. |
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CHAP. XXVII.
An ACT for amending and declaring the law in the
cases therein mentioned.
To continue three years, &c.
It has expired. But the act of 1771, ch. 33, had the same title,
and
contained nearly the same, with additional, provisions; that act expired
with the session of October, 1778.
At that session was passed at third act, under the same title, containing,
amongst other things, almost the
same provisions as the two former. |
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CHAP. XXIX.
An ACT for the relief of
the poor within the several counties
therein mentioned. |
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WHEREAS the necessity, number, and continual increase,
of the poor
within this province, is very great, and exceedingly burthensome, which
might be greatly lessened by a due regulation and employment of
them; |
Preamble. |
II. Be it therefore
enacted, by the right honourable the lord proprietary, by and
with the advice and consent of his lordship's governor, and the
upper and lower houses
of assembly, and the authority of the same, That there shall be an
alms and work-house
erected, built and set up, in the several counties herein after named,
at convenient
places therein, at the general charge and expence of the respective counties
where
the said alms and work-houses shall be erected and built; and that the
justices of
the said county courts respectively, for the time being, shall, and they
are hereby
authorised and empowered to assess and levy on the taxable inhabitants
of each
county, at the time of laying their respective county levy, a quantity,
not exceeding
fifteen pounds, of tobacco, by the poll, on each and every the taxable
inhabitants
of their said counties, in each of the years of our Lord seventeen hundred
and sixty-eight, seventeen hundred and sixty-nine, and seventeen hundred
and seventy,
together with the sheriff's salary of five per cent. for collecting
the same;
which said assessments, so as aforesaid to be made and levied, shall be
collected by
the several and respective sheriffs of the said counties, from the several
taxable persons,
who shall reside within the same, in the same manner as the public and
county levies are collected; and the said tobacco, when so as aforesaid
collected,
shall be paid by such sheriffs, respectively, to such trustees for the
poor, or the
major part of them, as are by this act appointed; who are hereby authorised
and
required, to receive and apply the same to the uses and purposes herein
after directed. |
Alms and
work-houses
to be erected
in particular
counties, for
which the justices
are to assess
a quantity,
not exceeding
15lb.
of tobacco,
per poll, in the
years 1768,
1769, & 1770,
together with
the sheriff's
salary of 5
per cent. for
collection.
To be paid to
trustees. |
III. Provided
always, and be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for
the several and respective taxable inhabitants, within every of the said
counties, to
pay and discharge the said several assessments, in money, in the same manner
as
they are enabled to pay and discharge the public or county levy. |
Which may
be discharged
by the inhabitants
in money,
&c. |
IV. And be it
further enacted, That, for the time being, the five several persons
hereafter named for each county, be and are hereby nominated, appointed
and
named, trustees for the poor within their several and respective counties,
and are
empowered with full and sufficient authority, for discharging the several
offices,
duties and trusts, reposed in and required of them by this act, within
the several
and respective counties wherein they reside; That is to say, For Anne-Arundel
county, Messieurs Brice Thomas Beale Worthington, Thomas Dorsey, Nicholas
Worthington, Lancelot Jacques, and Upton Scott. For Prince-George's
county,
Messieurs John Baines, William Bowie, Richard Duckett, John Fendall Beall, |
Five persons
in each county
appointed
trustees for
the poor. |
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