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CHAP.
XIV. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
them, appointed as aforesaid, are hereby authorised, directed and required,
to
agree and contract with a workman or workmen to undertake, erect, build,
and
in a workman-like manner complete and finish, on the said land, when so
purchased,
good, strong, sufficient, and convenient houses, habitations and dwellings,
for the reception of the poor of said county, and of such vagrants,
beggars,
vagabonds, and other offenders, as shall be committed by virtue of this
act, and they shall appropriate one part thereof, to be called the alms-house,
to
and for the reception and lodging of the poor of the said county, and another
part or parts thereof, to be called the work-house, to and for the reception
and
lodging of all such vagrants, beggars, vagabonds, and other offenders,
as shall
be committed in virtue of this act; and the aforesaid land, when bought,
and
the aforesaid houses, habitations and dwellings, when built, shall
be, and they
are hereby enacted and declared to be, vested in the said trustees, and
their successors,
for ever, as their estate and inheritance, for the uses and purposes by
this act
directed and expressed. |
And buy
beds, &c. |
VIII. And be
it enacted, That the said trustees, or the major part of them,
shall and they are hereby authorised, directed and required, after the
houses, habitations
and dwellings aforesaid, shall be completely erected and finished, to buy
and purchase, for the use and employment of the poor of the said county,
and
the vagrants, beggars, vagabonds, and other offenders, who shall be
committed
by virtue of this act, sufficient beds, beding, working tools, kitchen
utensils,
cows, horses, and other necessaries; and the said trustees are hereby directed
and
required to purchase the said quantity of land, not exceeding fifty
acres, or less
than six, in such part of said county as they, or a majority of them, may
think
most convenient; and the said trustees are hereby directed and required
to keep
a fair, distinct, and clear account in writing, of all the monies by them
received
and expended in virtue of this act, and to return a true copy thereof,
and shew
and produce the vouchers to support the same, to the justices of the said
county,
at their June court yearly, to be by the said justices inspected and examined;
which said accounts shall be lodged with the clerk of the said court. |
After three
years, justices
to levy money,
&c. |
IX. And be it
enacted, That after the expiration of the said three years, the
justices of Caroline county court aforesaid 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 five shillings on every hundred pounds of property
as aforesaid
in the said county, together with the collector's commission of six per
cent.
for collecting the same, which said assessment shall be made, levied,
collected,
and paid, in the same manner as herein before is directed; which said money,
when so as aforesaid collected, shall be paid by the collector to the order
of such
trustees, 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
other
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; for purchasing
materials
for the use and employment of all the poor, and all beggars, vagrants,
vagabonds,
and other offenders, who shall be able to work, and who shall be committed
by
virtue of this act. |
Trustees to
meet yearly,
&c. |
X. And be it
enacted, That the said trustees, or the major part of them, shall
and they are hereby authorised, directed and enjoined, to meet together
between
the first and tenth of November yearly, and all such other times as they
shall
judge necessary, at the alms and work-house in the said county, during
the continuance
of this act, to appoint a fit person to be overseer of the alms and work-house
in the said county, and such other proper officers and servants as to them
shall appear necessary for carrying on the business of the said corporation;
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, |
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