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CHAP.
LVII. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
and the said trustees are hereby directed and required to purchase
the said quantity of land not exceeding thirty acres, as near and
convenient as may be to the court-house in their said counties, 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 counties
respectively, at their June courts yearly, to be by the said justices
inspected and examined; which said accounts shall be lodged with the
clerk of the said courts. |
Justices to assess
not exceeding
7f6 on
every £. 100,
&c. |
IX. And be it
enacted, That after the expiration of the said three years,
the justices of the said county courts respectively for the time being
shall,
and they are hereby empowered, to assess and levy on all the property in
their said counties subject and liable to assessment, at the time of laying
their county rate, a sum of current money not exceeding seven shillings
and six-pence on every hundred pounds of property as aforesaid in the
said county, together with the collector's commission of four per cent.
for
collecting the same; which said assessment shall be made, levied, collected
and paid, in the same manner as herein before directed; which said
money, when so 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 offenders, in the purchasing provisions and other necessaries
for the 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 offenders,
who shall be able to work, and who shall be committed by virtue
of this act. |
Trustees to
meet in Nov.
yearly, &c. |
X. And be it
enacted, That the said trustees, or a 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 at 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 counties,
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 overseers, 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 Dorchester or Somerset county,
(as the case may be) 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 Dorchester and
Somerset counties, then the above obligation to be void, otherwise to remain
in full force and virtue in law." |
May remove
overseer, &c. |
XI. And be it
enacted, That the said trustees, or a major part of them,
shall, and they hereby directed and empowered to remove such overseer, |
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