674: KENT COUNTY. [ART. 14.

89. Proceeds, how applied. 90. To what cases, not applicable. GRAY'S INN CREEK.. 110 Wharfage to be charged wharf to be repaired. SASSAFRAS. 157. Incorporated powers and privileges. 158 Election of commissioners 159. Judge of election. 160. Future elections 161. President of board. 1G2 Transaction of business vacancies. 163. The clerk, hip duties. compensation 164 Fines and forfeitures. 165. Limits of town.

166 Laws, regulations and ordinances. 167 Bailiffs, their powers and duties. 168 Commissioners to lay out, straighten and widen streets damages. 167. Mot to issue notes, &c, as currency. SCHOOLS 170 Five trustees to manage school dis- tricts Nos. T, 8 and 0 in election district No. 4. 174 Powers of trustees abridged 175 Election of trustees and clerk. 180 Management of schools. 181 Trustees empowered to sell school- house lot 182. Purchasing land and erection of school-houses.

ALMSHOUSE.

1867, c. 137 provides that the county commissioners of Kent county are author-
ized and empowered to have erected and built an almshouse for said county in the
place of the building recently destroyed by fire, and to enter into contracts for the
construction thereof, if they shall deem it advisable to do so, or have the same
erected under the control and direction of the said county commissioners or a
majority of them. That the county commissioners of Kent county are authorized
and empowered to levy, on the assessable property of Kent county, a. sum of money
not exceeding the sum of three thousand dollars, for the purpose aforesaid, and that
the said levy may be made in one or more years, at the discretion of the said county
commissioners, who shall have power to borrow money for the said purpose, and to
provide for the re-payment thereof, and interest, by levies upon the assessable pro-
perty of Kent county aforesaid. 1866, c. 158 provides that the trustees of the alms-
house in Kent county are authorized and empowered, for such consideration as they
may deem proper, to convey by deed duly executed and acknowledged according to
law, a part of the farm or tract of land in said county, known as the almshouse
property, and described as follows: Beginning at a stone set on the lines of the
land of the devisees of the late Samuel c. Baker and the said almshouse farm, and
running thence north sixty-two degrees, west thirty-nine perches and nine-tenths of
a perch, to lines of the land of the said Samuel c Baker, thence with the said lands
north forty-four degrees east ten perches and three-tenths of a perch, to a stone,
thence with said lands and the camp-ground lot in a straight line to the beginning,
containing one acre and twenty-four perches, to Thomas Baker, Joshua. Clark, James
Kendall, William W. Parks, Joseph A. Harper, John N. Usilton and Henry Bram-
ble, and their successors forever, in trust to and for the use of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church on Kent circuit, for holding and conducting camp-meetings, Sunday
school meetings, festivals or other meetings, and for such other purposes as may
be considered useful or advantageous to the said church, or for any other moral,
religious or literary institutions of the said church, according to the provisions of
the act of Assembly passed at December session, eighteen hundred and sixty-one,
chapter seventy-two, entitled an act to appoint and authorize certain persons in
Kent county to purchase real estate in Kent county, from Samuel c. Baker, of said
county, to be held in trust for the Methodist Episcopal Church on Kent circuit, for
the purpose of holding camp-meetings or other meetings on the same, Sunday school
festivals, and so forth.