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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec. Ses. 1821.

it shall seem to them advantageous, forthwith to sell at public or
private sale, the lands and premises commonly called Strawberry
Hill, belonging to the said counts', and now used as a poor-house,
and convey the same to the purchaser in fee simple, by a good and
sufficient deed of bargain and sale to be acknowledged and record-
ed according to law, and to apply the proceeds thereof to the
purchase of such other land, not exceeding ten acres nor more than
eight miles from the city of Annapolis, as they shall think most
eligible, and to the building thereon, or repairing if necessary,
such house or houses as they shall think most suitable for the ac-
commodation of the poor of said county, and the balance, if any,
to pay over to the said levy court for the use of the said county;

Proviso.

Provided, They shall have contracted for the purchase of a lot si-
tuated as aforesaid, before they make sale of the present establish-
ment; and before they transfer possession of said establishment,
they shall have erected, on the lot aforesaid, buildings sufficient for
the accommodation of the poor of the aforesaid county.

Trustees not
to furnish sup-
plies—penalty.

12. And be it enacted, That from and after the organization
of this institution, under the provisions of this act, it shall not be
lawful for any trustee to furnish on his own account, supplies of
any description, for the use of the Aims-House; and if any trustee
shall, in violation of this act, furnish supplies to said institution, he
shall, upon sufficient evidence of the fact being offered to the levy

court of the county aforesaid, forfeit for the use and benefit of the
institution, whatever supplies he may have so furnished.

Repeal.

13. And be it enacted, That any thing in the said original act
to which this is a supplementary act, as relates to Anne-Arundel
county, which is repugnant to or inconsistent with the provisions
of tins act, shall be and the same is hereby repealed.

Passed Feb. 19,

1822.
Bonds—sub-
scribing wit-
nesses to make
oath.

CHAPTER 175.

A supplement to the act entitled, An act relating to Constables' Bonds.
Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act, it shall be the duty of the
levy courts of the several counties of this state, before they receive
the bond of any constable hereafter to be appointed by them, to
have the following oath (or affirmation) made before some justice
of the peace, endorsed thereon, to wit: "We, A. 13. and C. D. sub-
scribing witnesses to the within bond, do make oath, (or affirmation,
as the case may be,) that the obligors mentioned in said bond, did
severally, in our presence, sign, seal and deliver the said bond as
their act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned.

Passed Feb. 20,
1822.

Levy court
to appoint tru -
tees—vacan-
cies.

CHAPTER 176.

A further supplement to the act entitled, An act for the distribution of
a certain fund for the purpose of establishing free schools in the
several counties therein mentioned.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the levy court of Talbot county, be and they are hereby em-
powered and directed to appoint, on or before the first Monday of
April next, and annually thereafter, seven wise and discreet persons
In each election district of said county, to be styled and called, the
trustees for the education of poor children, and one person to be cal-
led, the treasurer of the school fund for Talbot county; and shall no-