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WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, Esq; Governor.
support, any such person not having and wearing such badge or mark as
aforesaid,
and be thereof convicted upon the oath of one or more credible witness
or witnesses,
he shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten pounds current money. |
1787.
CHAP.
XVI. |
XVIII. 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-houses respectively, 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-houses,
shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay the sum of ten pounds
current money. |
Penalty on
keeping
booth, &c. |
XIX. 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 counties respectively, and to all such officers 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. |
XX. 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 hall 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. |
XXI. 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 said counties
respectively,
shall and may elect and choose one of the principal inhabitants of their
county, to be a trustee for the poor of that county in the stead of the
first named
or eldest of the said trustees of the same county, which said first named
or eldest
trustee shall be, and is by virtue hereof, thencefrom discharged from his
office. |
A trustee to
be chosen
annually, &c. |
XXII. 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
counties
respectively for the reception of the poor, vagrants, vagabonds or offenders,
with the necessary lot or lots of ground adjoining to such house or houses,
as
convenient to the court-house in said counties respectively, for the reception
and accommodation of the said poor, vagrants, vagabonds and 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 said counties respectively are hereby empowered and
enjoined,
annually, at the court for laying the county rate, to assess on the taxable
property
of the said counties respectively, a sufficient sum to discharge the rent
aforesaid,
with the collectors commission of five per cent. thereon; which
sum so as aforesaid
assessed, shall be collected and paid by the collector of the same county
to
the said trustees respectively, 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 carrying the said act into execution, according
to the
true intent and meaning thereof. |
Trustees to
rent an house,
&c. |
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