1852.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 248.

CHAPTER 248.

Passed May

20, 1852.

AN ACT to provide for the establishment of an
Almshouse in Carroll county.

Authority to
purchase a
farm.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the county commissioners for Car-
roll county, be, and they are hereby authorized to pur-
chase a farm in said county, containing not exceeding
one hundred and fifty acres of land, for the purpose of
erecting buildings thereon, for the reception and accom-
modation of the poor of said county, and to purchase
every thing necessary for stocking and farming said
land; and in order to meet all expenses which may be
incurred in making said purchases, the county com-
missioners aforesaid shall have, in virtue of this act, full
power and authority to borrow, on the credit, of said
county, by the issue of county certificates of debt, or
otherwise, such sum or sums of money, as they may
deem necessary for the purpose; which said sum or
sums of money shall be repaid by said county commis-
sioners, by such a gradual annual levy therefor upon
the assessable properly of said county, at the time of
making their annual levy, as will, in their judgment,
best suit the interest and convenience of the tax-payers

of said county.

Power and du-
ty of county
commission-
ers.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said county
commissioners shall have full power and authority to
employ an overseer, or steward, to take charge of said
almshouse, farm, And appurtenances; to visit said
almshouse at least once in every three months, either
personally or by a committee of not less than three of
their number, to examine into the condition and the
affairs of the institution; to publish annually, with
their statement of the county expenditures, a statement

of the financial condition of said institution; to levy
upon the assessable properly of said county, for any
actual or expected deficiency in the financial condition
thereof, and to do all other acts necessary to the proper
conducting and management of said farm and alms-
house.

Indigent per-
sons to repair
to almshouse.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That, after the erection
of said almshouse, and after the same shall have been
prepared for use, the county commissioners aforesaid,
shall require, whenever they may deem it just and pro-
per, those indigent persons who receive pensions from
said county, by county assessment, to relinquish the
same, and repair to the said almshouse; and on their