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JOHN EAGER HOWARD, Esquire, Governor.
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 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 and 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 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. |
1790.
CHAP.
XXVI. |
IV. And,
to perpetuate the succession of the aforesaid number of seven 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 fill 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 and 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 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 Calvert
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 purchase
land, &c. |
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