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WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, Esq; Governor.
of subsistence whereby to acquire an honest livelihood, there to be
kept at hard
labour for any time not exceeding three months, and the overseer of such
alms
and work-house is hereby required to receive into the said alms and
work-house
any poor appointed as aforesaid to be received, and any vagrant, vagabond,
beggar,
and other idle, dissolute, and disorderly person, so as aforesaid committed. |
1787.
CHAP.
XI. |
XVII. And be
it enacted, That whosoever shall presume, either to set up a
booth, stall, or other convenience for the selling of strong liquors, on
the land
purchased for the use of the said alms and work-house, or shall commit
any kind
of trespass thereon, or shall sell or dispose of any strong liquor, or
other matter
or thing whatsoever to, or purchase any matter or thing whatsoever from,
any
poor, or other person entertained in the said alms and work-house,
shall, for every
such offence, forfeit and pay the sum of ten pounds current money. |
Penalty on
keeping
booth, &c. |
XVIII. And be
it enacted, That all sheriffs, constables, and all other officers
and ministers of justice, shall be aiding and assisting to the said trustees
for the
poor in the said county, and to all such offenders as shall be employed
by them,
as by this act is directed, in the execution and performance of the said
service. |
Sheriffs, &c.
to aid trustees,
&c. |
XIX. And be
it enacted, That if any person or persons shall, at any time or
times, be sued or prosecuted for any matter or thing by him or them done
and
executed in pursuance and execution of this act, or of any matter or thing
in
this act contained, such person or persons shall and may plead the general
issue,
and give this act and the special matter in evidence, for his or their
defence; and
if upon trial a verdict shall pass for the defendant or defendants, or
if the
plaintiff or plaintiffs shall become nonsuit, or discontinue his or their
suit, then
such defendant or defendants shall have and recover treble costs to him
or them
awarded against such plaintiff or plaintiffs, and if the plaintiff or plaintiffs
is or
are unable to satisfy the same, then it shall be paid and satisfied
by the attorney
who brought such suit, unless the plaintiff or plaintiffs shall give security
for the
costs, to be approved by the court in which such suit is brought. |
Persons sued
may plead
the general
issue, &c. |
XX. And,
to prevent individuals from being unreasonably burthened with the
execution of this act as trustees for the poor, Be
it enacted, That at the time
of the meeting of the said trustees for the poor in the first week of November
yearly, the said trustees, or the major part of them, in the county
aforesaid, shall
and may elect and choose three of the inhabitants of the said county, to
be trustees
for the poor of that county in the stead of the first three named or eldest
of
the said trustees of the same county, which said first named or eldest
trustees shall
be and is by virtue hereof, thencefrom discharged from their office. |
Three trustees
to be
chosen annually,
&c. |
XXI. And be
it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the trustees
aforesaid, or a major part of them, to rent an house or houses in the said
county
for the reception of such poor, vagrants, vagabonds, or other offenders,
with
the necessary lot or lots of ground adjoining to such house or houses,
as convenient
to the court-house as may be in the same county, for the reception and
accommodation of the said poor, vagrants, vagabonds, and other offenders,
until
a sufficient sum of money be raised in virtue of this act to enable
the said trustees
to purchase the land and erect the buildings herein before mentioned,
and
the justices of the said county are hereby empowered and enjoined, annually,
at
the court for laying the county rate, to assess on the taxable property
of the said
county a sufficient sum to discharge the rent aforesaid, with the collector's
commission
of six per cent. thereon, which sum so as aforesaid assessed, shall
be collected
and paid by the said collector to the said trustees, or a majority of them,
to be by them applied to the purposes aforesaid; and the said trustees,
or the major
part of them, are hereby empowered and required, as soon as such house
or
houses aforesaid are procured on rent, to proceed to the appointment of
an overseer,
and other officers and servants, as are mentioned in this act, and
to do and
perform every other matter and thing necessary to the carrying the said
act into
execution, according to the true intent and meaning thereof. |
Trustees to
rent an house,
&c. |
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