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WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, Esq; Governor.
IX. And be it
enacted, That after the expiration of the said three years, the
justices of the said county courts respectively 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 three shillings and nine-pence on every hundred
pounds
of property as aforesaid in their said counties, together with the
collectors commission
of five per cent. for collecting the same; which said assessment
shall be
made, levied, collected and paid, in the same manner as herein before
directed,
which said money, when so collected, shall be paid by the collector
to the order
of the trustees for his county, 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 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,
and
in purchasing materials for the use and employment of all the poor,
and all
beggars, vagrants, vagabonds and offenders, who shall be able to work,
and
who shall be committed by virtue of this act. |
1787.
CHAP.
XVI.
Justices to
assess not exceeding
3f9
on every
£. 100, &c. |
X. And be it
enacted, That the said trustees, or a 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 their said counties
respectively,
during the continuance of this act, to appoint s fit person to be overseer
of
the alms and work-house in their said county, and other proper officers
and servants
as to them shall appear necessary for carrying on the business of the
said
corporations, 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 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
Montgomery
or Harford county, (as the case may be) 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 Montgomery
and Harford counties, then the above obligation to be void, otherwise to
remain
in full force and virtue in law." |
Trustees to
meet in November
yearly,
&c. |
XI. And be it
enacted, That the said trustees respectively, or a major part of
them, shall and they are hereby directed and empowered to remove such overseer,
and all other officers by them to be appointed in pursuance of this act,
at
their discretion, and to choose others in their place and stead. |
May remove
overseer, &c. |
XII. And be
it enacted, That the said trustees, or the major part of them,
shall and they are hereby directed and enjoined to meet at the alms
and work-house
in their said counties respectively, four times in the year, in the first
week
in January, May, August and November, if oftener, if it should by them
be
deemed necessary, to make and ordain, by a majority of votes of such as
may
be present, all such good and wholesome ordinances, rules and bye-laws,
as they
shall think convenient and necessary for the direction, government and
support, of
the alms and work-house in their county, and also for the cleanliness,
maintenance
and employment, of all such poor persons as shall be taken under their
care, and of
all vagrants, beggars, vagabonds and offenders, that shall be committed
thereto by
virtue of this act, all which ordinances, rules and bye-laws, shall
be, from time
to time, inviolably observed by all persons concerned, according to the
tenor
and effect thereof. |
And meet
four times in
the year, &c.
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