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HORATIO SHARPE, Esq; Governor.
out of his county, that then, and so often, the trustees for the time
being, then
surviving and remaining within the said county, or the major part of them,
be
and are hereby authorised and required, to elect, nominate and choose,
one or
more of the principal and better sort of the inhabitants of the county,
not being
related in blood to any other of the then trustees, into the place and
room of the
said trustee so dead or removed, and so to fill up the number of trustees
for
each 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 by this
act is directed. |
1768.
CHAP.
XXIX.
trustees, the
survivors to
nominate
others, &c. |
VI. And be it
further enacted, That every person by this act appointed as a
trustee for the poor, or that shall hereafter be nominated and appointed
as such,
pursuant to the directions hereof, and who shall wilfully refuse or delay
to take
upon him the said office, shall forfeit and pay, for every such refusal
or delay, the
sum of ten pounds current money. Provided, That no member of the
upper or
lower house of assembly, clergyman, attorney, or practising physician,
be obliged
to accept of the office of trustee aforesaid, or forfeit as aforesaid for
refusing to accept
and take upon him the same; and that no provincial or county magistrate,
or sheriff, or any on who hath not the qualification to be a member of
the lower
house of assembly, if elected, shall be capable to be chosen or act as
a trustee aforesaid,
nor shall any person be compellable to serve in less than three years after
he
said, nor shall any person be compellable to serve in less than three years
after he
hath served, or paid the said forfeiture for not serving as a trustee aforesaid. |
Trustees appointed
for
the poor, and
refusing to act,
forfeit, &c.
Proviso. |
VII. And,
for enabling the said trustees to purchase land, and erect an alms
and work-house in each of the said counties, Be
it enacted, That the said trustees,
or the major part of them, be, and they are hereby authorised and empowered,
from time to time as occasion shall require, to draw upon the several and
respective
sheriffs of the several counties aforesaid, in whose lands the tobacco
aforesaid,
so as aforesaid to be assessed and levied, or such part thereof as shall,
by virtue of this
act, be so assessed and levied, shall remain, for so much of the said tobacco
as the
said trustees, or the major part of them, shall, from time to time,
think it necessary
to draw for, for the uses and purposes directed by this act. |
Trustees to draw
on the
sheriffs, to enable
them to
purchase
land, and
erect alms
and work-houses. |
VIII. And be
it further enacted, That the said trustees, or the major part of
them, appointed as aforesaid, shall, and they are hereby authorised, directed
and
required, to buy and purchase, in fee, a quantity of land in each county,
not exceeding
one hundred acres; and the said trustees, or the major part of them, appointed
as aforesaid, are hereby authorised, directed and required, to agree and
contract
with a workman or workmen to undertake, erect, build, and in a workmanlike
manner to complete and finish, on the said land, when so purchased, good,
strong, sufficient and convenient houses, habitations and dwellings, for
the reception
of the poor of each county, and of such vagrants, beggars, vagabonds and
other offenders, as shall be committed by virtue of this act; and they
shall appropriate
one part thereof, to be called the alms-house, to and for the reception
and lodging of the poor of the said county, and another part or parts thereof,
to
be called the work-house, to and for the reception and lodging of all such
vagrants,
beggars, vagabonds and other offenders, as shall be committed by virtue
of this act; and the aforesaid land, when bought, and the aforesaid houses,
habitations
and dwellings, when built, shall be, and they are hereby enacted and declared,
to be vested in the said trustees of that county where the same shall be
bought, erected and built upon, by virtue of this act, as their estate
and inheritance,
for the uses and purposes by this act directed and expressed. |
Not more than
100 acres of
land in each
county, to be
purchased, on
which convenient
houses
to be built,
and the trustees
to contract
with
workmen to
complete the
same; part of
which to be
called the
alms-house,
for the use of
the poor, and
the other part,
the work-house,
for the
reception of
vagrants, &c. |
IX. And be it
further enacted, That the said trustees, or the major part of them,
appointed as aforesaid, shall, and they are hereby authorised, directed
and required,
after the houses, habitations and dwellings aforesaid, shall be completely
erected
and finished, to buy and purchase, for the use and employment of the poor,
vagrants,
beggars, vagabonds and other offenders, who shall be committed by virtue
of this act, sufficient beds, bedding, working tools, kitchen utensils,
cows, horses,
and other necessaries; and the said trustees are hereby directed and required,
to
purchase the said quantity of land, not exceeding one hundred acres, as
near and |
The trustees,
after the houses
shall be finished
to purchase
beds,
working-tools,
&c. and
to purchase
land, convenient
to the
principal
town, or |
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