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JOHN EAGER HOWARD, Esq; Governor.
enabled to take, hold, possess and enjoy, any gift, donation or present,
which
shall or may hereafter be given, devised or bequeathed, by any person or
persons
whatsoever, to them or any of them, for or towards the support and maintenance
of the poor in the said county; and they or any of them may receive, by
way
of subscription, any sum or sums of money which shall or may be given for
the
better and more speedy promoting the benefit and good by this act intended;
and
that they have full power, authority and ability, to purchase, take, hold,
receive,
enjoy and have, to them and their successors for ever, any lands, tenements
and
hereditaments, not exceeding the yearly value of five hundred pounds current
money, and are hereby empowered and authorised to use one common seal in
their
business relating to said corporation, and the same, if necessary, to change
and
alter; and that the said persons so incorporated, and their successors,
shall be the
true and undoubted trustees, in perpetual succession for ever, to be continued
in
way and manner hereafter specified, with full and absolute power, liberty
and
authority, in the making and ordaining such laws, orders and rules, for
the better
relieving, regulating, and setting the poor to work, and punishing vagrants,
beggars, vagabonds, and other offenders, and for the good government of
the said
alms and work-house, in their said county, as to them, and their successors,
shall
from time to time appear most fit and requisite, all which shall be observed
by
the overseer of such alms and work-house, and by all poor, beggars, vagrants,
vagabonds, and other offenders, in such alms and work-house, under the
penalties
therein contained; provided always, that the said rules, laws and orders,
be no ways contrary to the laws of this state. |
1788.
CHAP.
XIV. |
IV. And,
to perpetuate the succession of the aforesaid number of five trustees
for the poor in said county, Be it enacted,
That as often as any one of the said
trustees for the poor shall die, or remove himself out of the county, refuse
to
qualify himself by taking and subscribing the oaths or affirmations
aforesaid, or
become incapable of acting, the trustees for the time being, then surviving
and
remaining within the said county, or the major part of them, are hereby
authorised
and required to elect, nominate and choose, one of the inhabitants of said
county, in the place and room of such trustee, and so full up the full
number of
trustees for such alms and work-house, which persons so elected and chosen
from
time to time, are always to be qualified in the same manner as before by
this act
is directed. |
How vacancies
are to be
filled. |
V. And be it
enacted, That every person by this act appointed as a trustee for
the poor, or that shall hereafter be nominated and appointed as such, pursuant
to
the directions thereof, and who shall wilfully refuse or delay to take
upon him
the said office, shall forfeit and pay, for every such refusal or delay,
the sum of
ten pounds current money; provided, that no member of the general assembly,
clergyman, attorney, or practising physician, be obliged to accept the
office of
trustee aforesaid, or forfeit as aforesaid for refusing to accept and take
upon him
the same, and that no judge of the general court, county magistrate or
sheriff,
or any one who hath not the qualification to be a member of the general
assembly,
if elected, shall be capable to be chosen, or act as a trustee aforesaid,
nor
shall any person be compellable to serve in less than three years after
he has served,
or paid the said forfeiture for not serving, as a trustee aforesaid. |
PEnalty on
refusing to
serve, &c. |
VI. And,
for enabling the said trustees to purchase land, and erect an alms
and work-house in the said county, Be it
enacted, That the said trustees, or the
major part of them, be and they are hereby authorised and empowered, from
time
to time, as occasion shall require, to draw upon the collector of Caroline
county
for all or any part of the money by this act assessed, levied and collected,
as shall
remain in his hands, which the said trustees, or the major part of them,
shall
think necessary for the uses and purposes mentioned in this act. |
Trustees to
draw on collector,
&c. |
VII. And be
it enacted, That the said trustees, or the major part of them,
appointed as aforesaid, shall and they are hereby authorised, directed
and required,
to buy and purchase, in fee-simple, a quantity of land in the said
county, not
exceeding fifty acres, or less than six; and the said trustees, or the
major part of |
To purchase
land, &c. |
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