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WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, Esq; Governor.
within the said counties, or the major part of them, are hereby authorised
and required, to elect, nominate and choose, one of the principal and better
sort of the inhabitants of the county, in the place and room of such
trustee, and so to fill 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. |
1785.
CHAP.
LVII. |
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 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 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 refusal
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 their respective counties for all or any part of
any
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 counties respectively, not exceeding thirty acres;
and the
said trustees, or the major part of 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 to 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 counties, and of such vagrants, beggars,
vagabonds and 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 counties
respectively, 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 offenders, as shall be committed by virtue of this act; and
the aforesaid lands 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, as their estate and inheritance for
the uses and purposes by this act directed and expressed. |
To purchase
land, &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 offenders,
who shall be committed by virtue of this act, sufficient beds,
bedding, working tools, kitchen utensils, cows, horses, and other necessaries; |
And buy
beds, bedding,
&c. |
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