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WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, Esq; Governor.
habitations and dwellings, when built, shall be, and they are hereby
enacted and
declared to be, vested in the said trustees, and their successors, for
ever, as their
estate and inheritance for the uses and purposes by this act directed and
expressed. |
1787.
CHAP.
XI. |
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, 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 six, in such part of said county as they, or a majority
of them,
may think most convenient; 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. |
ANd buy
beds, bedding,
&c. |
IX. And be it
enacted, That after the expiration of the said three years, the
justices of Kent county court aforesaid, for the time being, shall and
they are
hereby empowered to assess and levy on all the property in said county
subject
and liable to assessment, at the time of laying their county rate, a sum
of current
money, not exceeding five shillings on every hundred pounds of property
as
aforesaid in the said county, together with the collector's commission
of six per
cent. for collecting the same; which said assessment shall be made,
levied, 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 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 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. |
Justices to
assess not exceeding
5f
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 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 for 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 Kent 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 Kent county, then the above obligation to be void, otherwise
to remain
in full force and virtue in law." |
Trustees to
meet in November
yearly,
&c. |
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