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CHAP.
XXIX.
court-house
of each county,
and also
to return a fair
account to
the justices, at
every Nov.
court, to be
examined. |
18 FREDERICK Lord BALTIMORE.
convenient as may be to the principal towns in each county, or in those
counties
where no such towns are, as near and convenient as may be to the several
and
respective court-houses of each county; and the said trustees are hereby
obliged,
directed and required; to keep a fair, distinct and clear account, in writing,
of all
the monies by them expended and paid, by virtue of this act, and to return
a true
copy thereof, and shew and produce the vouchers to support the same, to
the justices
of the several counties aforesaid, at their respective November courts,
to be
by the said justices inspected and examined. |
The justices
of the counties
aforesaid,
to assess in
1771, a quantity
not exceeding
15lb.
per poll, &c.
to be paid to
the order of
the trustees,
&c. to be applied
to the
use of the
poor, &c. |
X. And be it
further enacted, That after the expiration of the said three years,
the justices of the several county courts aforesaid, respectively, of the
time being,
shall, and they are hereby empowered, to assess and levy, on the taxable
inhabitants
of each of their said counties, at the time of laying their county levies,
in the year
seventeen hundred and seventy-one, a quantity of tobacco, not exceeding
fifteen
pounds by the poll, on each and every of the taxable inhabitants in each
of their said
counties, together with the sheriff's salary of five per cent. for
collecting the same;
which said assessment shall be made, levied, collected and paid, in the
same manner
as herein before by this act is directed; which said tobacco, when so as
aforesaid
collected, shall be paid by such sheriffs respectively to the order of
such
trustees, or the major part of them, under their common seal, who are hereby
authorised
and required, to receive and apply the same, to and for the use, benefit
and charge, of maintaining the poor, vagrants, beggars, vagabonds and other
offenders,
in the purchasing provisions and other necessaries for use and labour,
in paying
a doctor for his salary and medicines, in providing men and women servants,
to be under the management and direction of an overseer of such alms and
work-house,
hereafter to be appointed, and in purchasing materials for the use and
employment
of all the poor, and all beggars, vagrants, vagabonds and other offenders,
who shall be able to work, and who shall be committed by virtue of this
act. |
Trustees to
meet on the
1st Monday of
May, yearly,
to appoint overseers
of the
alms and
work-house,
&c.
and empowered
to pay a
salary, not exceeding
80l.
per annum.
Overseer to
give bond in
the penalty of
200l. for the
faithful discharge
of his
duty. |
XI. And be it
further enacted, That the said trustees, or the major part of
them, shall and they are hereby authorised, obliged, directed and enjoined,
to meet
together on the first Monday of May, years, and at all such other times
as they
shall judge necessary, at the respective alms and work-house in each county,
during
the continuance of this act, to appoint a fit person of each county to
be overseer
of the alms and work-house in each several and respective county, and other
proper officers and servants as to them shall appear necessary, for carrying
on the
business of the said corporation; and they, or the major part of them,
shall and
may agree, and they are hereby empowered, to pay the said overseer, as
a salary,
out of the tobacco and money raised and collected as aforesaid, a sum not
exceeding
eighty pounds current money per annum, and so pro rato, during
his continuance
in office, and shall then take, and the said overseer, and every other
overseer,
to be appointed, shall, and he is hereby obliged to enter into a bond,
with sufficient
sureties, in the penalty of two hundred pounds current money, payable to
the
said trustees for the poor, conditioned as follows, to with: " The
condition of the
" above obligation is such, That if the above bound A. B. as overseer of
the alms
" and work-house, in _____ county, shall and well and truly discharge his
duty in the
" said station, and more particularly according to the directions of the
act of assembly,
" entitled, An act for the relief of the poor within the several counties
therein
" mentioned, then the above obligation to be void, otherwise to remain
in full force
" and virtue in law. |
And to be removed
at the
discretion of
the trustees. |
XII. And be
it further enacted, That the said trustees, or the major part of
them, shall, and they are hereby directed and empowered, to remove such
overseer,
and all other officers, by them to be appointed, in pursuance of this act,
at their
discretion, and to proceed to choose others in their place and stead. |
Trustees to
meet at the
alms and
work-houses
four times a
year, to make
rules for the |
XIII. And be
it further enacted, That the said trustees, or the major part of
them, shall, and they are hereby directed and enjoined, to meet at the
alms
and work-house in each respective county, four times in the year, to wit,
in the
first week of February, May, August, and November, or oftener, if it should
by
them be deemed necessary, to make and ordain, by a majority of votes of
such as |
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