| 1788.
CHAP.
XV. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
their estate and inheritance, for the uses and purposes by this act
directed and
expressed. |
And buy
beds, &c. |
IX. 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 sufficiently repaired, altered and built,
for the reception of the poor of the said county, and the vagrants, beggars,
vagabonds,
and other offenders, who shall be committed by virtue of this act, to
buy and purchase, for their use and employment, sufficient beds, beding,
working
tools, kitchen utensils, cows, horses, and other necessaries; 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 by 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 July 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 one
year, justices
to levy money,
&c. |
X. And be it
enacted, That after the expiration of the year seventeen hundred
and eighty-nine, the justices of Queen-Anne's 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 and in 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. |
XI. 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 day 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 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, a sum not exceeding seventy-five pounds current money per
annum,
as a salary, and so pro rato, during his continuance in office,
and shall then
take bond, which the said overseer, and any other overseer to be appointed,
shall and is hereby obliged to enter into, with good and sufficient sureties,
in
the penalty of two hundred pounds current money, payable to the said trustees
for the poor, conditioned as follows, to wit, " The condition of the above
obligation is such, that if the above bound A. B. as overseer of the alms
and
work-house in Queen-Anne's county, shall well and truly discharge his duty
in
the said station, and more particularly according to the directions of
the act of
assembly, entitled, An act for the relief of the poor in Queen-Anne's county,
then the above obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full force
and virtue
in law." |
May remove
overseers, &c. |
XII. And be
it enacted, That the said trustees, or a major part of them, shall
and they are hereby directed and empowered to remove such overseer, and
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