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CHAP.
XV. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
incapable of acting, the trustees for the time being then surviving
and
remaining within the said county, or the major part of them, are hereby
authorised and required to elect, nominate and choose, one of the principal
and better sort of the inhabitants of the county 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 by this
act is directed. |
Penalty on refusal
to serve,
&c. |
V. And be it
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 thereof, 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 general assembly, clergyman, attorney, or practising physician,
be obliged to accept and take upon him the same, and that no
judge of the general court, county magistrate or sheriff, or any one who
hath not the qualification to be a member of the general 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
has served, or paid the said forfeiture for not serving as a trustee aforesaid. |
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Trustees to
draw on collector,
&c. |
VI. And,
for enabling the said trustees to purchase land, and erect an
alms and work-house in the said county, 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 collector of Talbot county for all or any part of the money by this
act assessed, levied and collected, as shall remain in his hands, which
the
said trustees, or the major part of them, shall think necessary, for the
uses
and purposes mentioned in this act. |
To purchase
land, &c. |
VII. And be
it 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 simple, a quantity of land in
the said county, not exceeding three acres, or less than twenty-five; 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 workman-like
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 said 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 arts 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, as their estate and inheritance, for
the
uses and purposes by this act directed and expressed. |
And buy
beds, bedding,
&c. |
VIII. And be
it enacted, That the said trustees, or the major part of
them, 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
of the said county, and the vagrants, beggars, vagabonds, and other offenders, |
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