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JOHN EAGER HOWARD, Esq; Governor.
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 think 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.
XV. |
V. And,
to perpetuate the succession of the aforesaid number of nine 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 to full up the full
number of
trustees for such alms and work-house; the 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. |
VI. 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 of 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 compelled 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
refusal to
serve, &c. |
VII. And,
for enabling the said trustees to repair and to convert the said building
into alms and work-houses, and to erect and build such others on the said
land
as they may think proper for the purposes herein mentioned, 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 Queen-Anne's 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. |
VIII. 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 agree and contract with a workman or workmen to undertake to repair
the said
buildings, and convert them into suitable and convenient houses, habitations
and
dwellings, and erect and build such others as they may judge proper and
necessary
on the said land (the whole to be completed and finished in a workman-like
manner) for the reception of the poor of the said county, and of such vagrants,
beggars, vagabonds, and other offenders, as shall be committed by virtue
of this
act, and they shall appropriate such part or parts thereof as they, or
a majority
of them, in their discretion, shall determine, to and for the reception
and lodging
of the poor of the said county, to be called the alms-house, and other
part
or parts thereof to and for the reception and lodging of all such vagrants,
beggars,
vagabonds, and other offenders, as shall be committed by virtue of this
act, to be called the work-house; and the aforesaid land, and the aforesaid
houses,
habitations and buildings, when finished, shall be, and they are hereby
enacted
and declared to be, vested in the said trustees, and their successors,
for ever, as |
To contract
with workmen,
&c. |
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