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Dec. Ses. 1825.
Obligations
secured. |
JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
14. And be it enacted, That nothing
herein contained shall be
construed to exonerate the medical professors from their obligation
for the payment of interest as required by the act of
eighteen hundred and twenty one, chapter eighty eight, or in
any wise to impair the public security in that regard; but that it
shall be the duty of the said professors, and of their successors,
to continue and confirm the obligation and other requisitions
of the said act. |
This act to
take effect. |
15. And be it enacted, That this act
shall go into effect and
operation on the first day of June next, and not before. |
Acts inconsistent
repealed. |
16. And be it enacted, That all such
parts of the act to which
this is a supplement, as are inconsistent therewith, be, and they
hereby are repealed. |
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Passed March
6, 1826. |
CHAPTER 191.
An act to authorise the Trustees of the Poor of Kent county, to purchase
a Farm or Tract of Land, for the use of the poor, and
to sell the present
Alms-house of said county, and for other purposes. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS, it is represented to the General Assembly,
by the
petition of sundry inhabitants of Kent county, that the existing
law for the support of the poor of said county imposes a heavy
and burthensome tax upon the people, and that it does not answer
the purpose for which it was intended: Therefore, |
Trustees of
the poor empowered
to
purchase and
build; levy. |
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland,
That the trustees of the poor of Kent county, be, and they are
hereby authorised, if, and whenever, they or a majority of them,
shall deem it expedient and for the interest of the inhabitants of
Kent county, and the comfort of the poor, to contract for and
purchase a farm or tract of land, not exceeding five hundred
acres, and for them and their successors to hold the same in
trust for the use of the county, and to erect thereon, at their discretion,
proper buildings and improvements for the accommodation
of the poor, the cost of which land so purchased, and
buildings, shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars,
which shall be levied upon and collected from the inhabitants of
Kent county, as other county charges are levied and collected,
and paid over to said trustees by their order: Provided nevertheless,
that a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars shall be
levied and collected in any one year. |
Farming
utensils, &c. |
2. And be it enacted, That the trustees
aforesaid, be, and
they are hereby authorised to provide suitable farming stock and
implements of husbandry out of the fund so authorised to be
levied, and cause all paupers who may be maintained in the
alms-house of said county, to perform such labor on said land,
when purchased as aforesaid, as may be consistent with their
health, bodily ability, and as may conduce to the interest of the
institution. |
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