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CHAP.
XV. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
Thompson, shall be entitled to have credit on the bond to be given in
virtue of
this act, for all allowances made to them for paupers or insolvents. |
If bond is
given, process
to proceed,
&c. |
XI. And be it
enacted, That if the said Robert Peter, John Murdock, William
Deakins, junior, Bernard Oneale, Edward Burgess, Walter Smith and
Richard Thompson, shall give bond as aforesaid, the process issued against
the
property of the said John Hayman Nichols as aforesaid, shall and may proceed,
and the execution thereof be completed, and the property taken sold for
their
use and benefit. |
On failure in
payment,
bonds to be
put in suit,
&c. |
XII. And be
it enacted, That in case of failure of payment at the days herein
before limited, respecting the bonds so given by the said Robert Peter,
John
Murdock, William Deakins, junior, Bernard Oneale, Edward Burgess ,Walter
Smith and Richard Thompson, or the survivors of them, shall be liable to
be put
in suit in the same manner as public bonds given by collectors in other
cases, and
the same speedy mode of recovery shall be had and used as may by law be
used
in the case of other collectors of the public assessment; and the said
RObert Peter,
John Murdock, William Deakins, junior, Bernard Oneale, Edward Burgess,
Walter Smith and Richard Thompson, or the survivors of them, shall, on
failure of payment, be liable to pay interest at the same rate as the said
John
Hayman Nichols was heretofore liable to pay on his collector's bond, the
said
additional interest to commence from the time of payment of said bonds
respectively,
and not before. |
Passed December
17. |
CHAP. XVI.
An ACT for the relief of the poor in Montgomery and Harford
counties. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS the necessity, number, and continual increase,
of the poor
within the said counties, is very great and burthensome, which might
be greatly lessened by a due regulation and employment of them;
therefore, |
Alms and
work-houses
to be built,
&c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That there shall be
alms and work-houses erected and built in Montgomery and Harford counties
at a convenient place therein, at the general charge and expence of the
said
counties respectively, and that the justices of the said counties respectively
for the
time being shall, and they are hereby authorised and empowered to asses
and
levy, in equal proportion, on the property within their respective counties
liable
to assessment, at their next March courts, the sum of three hundred pounds
current money, and the like sum at the time of laying their county
rate in each
of the years seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, and seventeen hundred and
ninety,
together with the collector's commission of five per cent. thereon
for collecting
the same; which said rate or assessment so as aforesaid to be laid and
levied,
shall be collected by the collector of said counties respectively, in the
same manner,
and at the same time, as the county rate is collected; and the said money
when so as aforesaid collected, shall be paid by the collector to such
trustees for
the poor, or the major part of them, as are by this act appointed, who
are hereby
authorised and required to receive and apply the same to the uses and purposes
herein after directed. |
Trustees appointed,
&c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That for the time being the several persons hereafter
named be and are hereby appointed trustees of the poor within the said
counties
respectively, and are empowered with full and sufficient authority to discharge
the several offices, duties and trusts, reposed in and require of them
by this act;
that is to say, Messieurs Richard Wootton, William Oneale, Benjamin Mackel,
Charles Perry, Charles Beatty, Henry Brookes and Jeremiah Crabb, for Montgomery
county, and Messieurs Joseph Stiles, Daniel Tredway, James Walker,
William Smithson, Alexander Rigden, Jesse Jarrard and Jacob Norris, for
Harford
county; the which persons, or the major part of them, in case of the death
or absence of any, are hereby required, with all convenient speed, to meet
at such |
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