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indirectly purchased or procured of any of said Commissioners,
nor shall any of them directly or indirectly furnish the same.

SEC. 10. The overseer shall keep a list of all poor, beggars,
vagrants, vagabonds, and other offenders, who shall be commit-
ted to said almshouse, and regular accounts of all materials
and other things that may come to his hands as overseer, and
shall lay said list and accounts before the County Commissioners
of Frederick County, when required.

SEC. 11. He shall compel all the inmates of said alms-
house, if of sufficient ability, to work.

SEC. 12. Upon complaint made that any person from his
disorderly conduct gives disturbance to a neighborhood, and is
likely to become chargeable to the County, any Justice of the
Peace of the County, if upon hearing the party, he shall adjudge
the complaint to be well founded, may commit such disorderly
person to the almshouse for any time not exceeding three months,
unless he shall find security, at the discretion of the Justice, in
any sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars, for his good behaviour for
the space of six months.

SEC. 13. Said County Commissioners of Frederick County
shall have full power and authority to receive into the alms-
house or Montevue Hospital all such lunatics or insane persons
or paupers as may be committed thereto by any of the Circuit
Courts of this State, and also all such lunatics or insane persons
as may be placed in said hospital by their friends for safe keep-
ing or treatment, and shall be entitled to receive as compensa-
tion for the boards, treatment and support of such persons, such
compensation as may be reasonable and just, to be paid by the
County Commissioners of the Counties from which such persons
may be sent, when committed by the order of any Court, and
to be paid by the friends, relations, trustees or committees of
such lunatic or insane persons, when such persons shall be placed
in such hospital by such friends, relations, trustees or com-
mittees.

SEC. 14. Any Justice of the Peace for said County, and any
person authorized by him, may apprehend or cause to be ap-
prehended any rogues, vagrants, vagabonds, beggars and other
idle and disorderly persons found loitering or residing in said
County, who follow no trade or occupation, and have no visible
means of support, and commit them to said almshouse, there
to be kept at hard labor for any term, not exceeding three
months; and the overseer shall receive and employ them accord-
ing to the tenor of the commitment.