| 1788.
CHAP.
XIII. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
shall be returned and returnable to the days and times above specified,
any thing
in any former law to the contrary notwithstanding. |
Passed December
22. |
CHAP. XIV.
An ACT for the relief of the poor of Caroline county. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it appears to this general assembly, that
the inhabitants of
Caroline county are burthened with taxes for the support of the poor
in said county, whose numbers annually increase; and notwithstanding
the large sums granted to that use, they are not conformably supported
under
the present regulations; therefore, |
Alms and
work-house
to be erected,
&c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That there shall be
an alms and work-house erected and built in Caroline county, at a convenient
place therein, at the general charge and expence of the said county; and
that the
justices of the said county for the time being, shall and they are hereby
authorised
and empowered to assess and levy, in equal proportion, on the property
within
the said county liable to assessment, at the time of laying the county
rate, the
sum of three hundred pounds current money, in each of the years seventeen
hundred and eighty-nine, seventeen hundred and ninety, and seventeen hundred
and ninety-one, together with the collector's commission of six per
centum thereon
for collecting the same; which said rate and assessment, so as aforesaid
to be laid
and levied, shall be collected by the collector of the said county 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 said 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
county,
and are empowered with full and sufficient authority to discharge the
several
offices, duties and trusts, reposed and required of them by this act; that
is to
say, Messieurs William Wheatly, Joseph Douglass, Thomas Hardcastle, Joshua
Willace and Henry Downs; 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 place within their county as to them shall seem meet, to
qualify
themselves for the office of trustees of the poor of their county, which
they are
to do by taking and subscribing the several oaths, or affirmations, appointed
by
law to be taken to the government, and also taking the following oath,
viz.
" I, A. B. do swear, or affirm, that I will duly and faithfully discharge
the duties
and trust committed to me as a trustee for the poor of Caroline county,
by an
act of the general assembly, entitled, An act for the relief of the poor
of Caroline
county, according to the best of my skill and knowledge. So help
me God:"
Which oaths are to be administered by any of the five persons last named
for the
county to the person first named, or in his absence to any one of the three
persons
first named that shall be there present, which person, being sworn as aforesaid,
shall administer the oaths aforementioned to all the rest, and so successively,
the
person first named that shall be present shall always administer the said
oaths to
any that have been absent, or that shall hereafter be elected and chosen
pursuant
to the directions of this act, to supply the place of any that shall be
dead, or
removed out of the county, or any who shall refuse or neglect to qualify
and act
as a trustee, when elected and chosen pursuant to the directions of this
act; and
the aforesaid persons, or the majority of them, being sworn as aforesaid,
shall be
constituted and qualified as trustees for the poor of their said county,
and as such
are hereby invested with full power and authority, as a body politic, to
plead and
to be impleaded, to sue and to be sued, to defend and to be defended, to
answer
and be answered, by the name of the trustees of the poor of Caroline county,
in all and every cause, complaint and action, real, personal or mixed,
of whatever
kind or nature it shall be, in any court of judicature within this state,
and
by that name they and any of them, and their successors, shall and they
are hereby |
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