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CHAPTER 87.
An act to provide for the appointment of Trustees of the
Poor-House of Baltimore County.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
five persons shall be annually appointed by the governor and coun-
cil trustees of the poor-house of Baltimore county, and all vacan-
cies occasioned by the death, resignation, or refusal to act, or remo-
val out of the county, shall be filled in the like manner; and the
said trustees shall meet together at the court-house of said county,
on the first day of May next, to commence the duties herein as-
signed to them, and when so met each of them shall take an oath,
or affirmation, that he will carefully and diligently execute the se-
veral powers and duties assigned to him as trustee aforesaid, ac-
cording to the best of his skill and judgment.
2. And be it enacted, That whenever the said five trustees shall have
qualified as aforesaid, all the powers, authority and duties, hereto-
fore by law vested in or imposed upon the justices of the levy
court of Baltimore county, relating to the said poor-house as such,
or as a work-house, and its lands, the general management and con-
cerns thereof shall be and the same are hereby transferred to and
vested in the said trustees, and their successors, by whom, or a
majority of whom, the said powers, authority and duties, shall be
used, exercised and performed, in as full and ample a manner as
the same might have been heretofore done by the levy court afore-
said; and all the books, papers and proceedings, of the levy court
aforesaid, respecting the same, which the said commissioners shall
find necessary or useful for them to possess, shall be forthwith de-
livered over to them.
3. And be it enacted, That the trustees aforesaid shall be entitled
to receive the sum of two dollars per day for each day they shall
meet together in the discharge of the duties herein required of
them, and shall have power to allow such and so many out pensi-
oners of said poor-house, as they may consider reasonable and pro-
per, the allowance for whose support shall not exceed in the whole
the rate of forty dollars each.
4. And be it enacted, That the said trustees shall annually make
out a full and fair account of all the public money by them receiv-
ed and expended, which with the vouchers therefor, and a list of
the number of paupers and others sustained by the said instituti-
on, together with an estimate of the sum or amount necessary for
the following year's support thereof, which shall be assessed and
levied by the said levy court, and collected as other county charges,
and paid over to the said trustees for the paupers aforesaid.
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Dec. Ses. 1817
Passed Jan. 31.
Governor and
council to ap-
point trustees.
Powers here-
tofore vested in
levy court
transferred to
trustees.
Their allow-
ance.
Annually to
make an ac-
count of mo-
ney received &
expended &c.
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