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WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, Esq; Governor.
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 thirty acres, or less than twenty-five,
as
near and convenient as may be to the court-house in said county; and the
said trustees are hereby directed and required to keep a fair, distinct,
and
clear account, in writing, of all the monies by them received and expended
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 said county
at their June court yearly, to be by the said justices inspected and
examined,
which said accounts shall be lodged with the clerk of the said court. |
1785.
CHAP.
XV. |
IX. And be it
enacted, That after the expiration of the said three
years, the justices of Talbot county court aforesaid, for the time being
shall, and they are hereby empowered, to assess and levy on all the property
in the said county subject and liable to assessment, at the time of laying
their county rate, a sum of current money not exceeding three shillings
on
every hundred pounds of property as aforesaid, in the said county,
together with the collector's commission of four per cent. for collecting
the
same; which said assessment shall be made, collected and paid, in
the same manner as herein before is directed; which said money, when so
as aforesaid collected, shall be paid by the collector 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 for
medicines, in providing men and women servants to be under the direction
and management of the overseer of such alms and work-house, hereafter
directed to be appointed, for an 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. |
Justices to assess
not exceeding
3f on
every £. 100,
&c. |
X. And be it
enacted, That the said trustees, or the major part of
them, shall, and they are hereby authorised, directed and enjoined, to
meet together between the first and tenth day of November yearly, and
at all such other times, as they shall judge necessary, at the alms and
work-house, in the said county, during the continuance of this act, to
appoint
a fit person to be overseer of the alms and work-house in the said
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, out of the money raised and collected
as aforesaid, a sum not exceeding seventy-five pounds current money per
annum, as a salary, and so pro rato during his continuance in office, and
shall then take bond, which the said overseer, and any other overseer to
be
appointed, shall and is hereby obliged to enter into, with good and sufficient
sureties, in the penalty of two hundred pounds current money, payable
to the said trustees of the poor, conditioned as follows, to wit, " the
condition
of the above obligation is such, that if the above bound A. B. as
overseer of the alms and work-house in Talbot county, shall 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 in Talbot county, then the above obligation to be void, otherwise
to remain in full force and virtue in law." |
Trustees to
meet in Nov.
yearly, &c. |
XI. And be it
enacted, That the said trustees, or a major part of
them, shall, and they are hereby directed and empowered, to remove such |
May remove
overseer, &c. |
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