Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-05-22


Sec %. Any one Commissioner of Chart
ties and Corrections may, in writing, direct
the admission of any poor person into said
Aims House.
Sec, 90. Any Justice of the Peace for said
county, and any person by him authorized,
may apprehend, or cause to be unprecedented
any rogues. Migrants vagabonds, btggars
and other idle and dsorderly persons found
lettering or residing in said county, who fol-
low no trade or occupation, and have no Wis
IDLE means Of support, and commit them to
said Aims House, there to be kept at hard
labor for any term not exceeding three
months, and the oversecr shall receive and
employ them according to the tenor of the
commitment.
SEC "a. If any person shall sell or dispose
of any strong liquor, to any inmate Of said
Aims House, he shall forfeit the sum of
twenty-five dollars.
Sec. 25. All the pains, penalties and for
FIXTURES imposed by this law, shall he rec0v-
cred in the Circuit Court for Frederick
county, ny action of debt or Indictment, one
half to the informer, and the other half to
the use of the Aims House for said county.
Sec. 20. All Sheritfs, BailifIs, Constablcs
or other officers shall assist the Commission
crs of Charities and Corrections, and the
officers by them appointed, in the discharge
of their respective duties.
SEC. 81. Ifany person shall at any time
be sued or prosecuted for any matter or
thing by him done in pursuance of this law,
or any thing therein contained. he may
! plead the general issue, and give the special
matter in evidence to his defence, and if
the plaintiff shall be non-suit, or dscontin-
ne, or if the defendant upon trial shall have
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the plaintiff be unable to pay them, they
shall be paid by the attorney who brought
the suit, unless the plaintiff shall give sc
curity for the costs to be approved by the
Court.
SEC. 90. The Treasurer of said Commits
sioners Of Charities and Corrections shall
receive salary for his services not exceed
ing three hundred dollars per annum to be
fixed by said Commissioners.
SEC. 20. The bond executed by the treas
urer and ovcrsecr or keeper of the Aims
House. shall be filed and recorded in the Of
flee of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for
Frederick County
SEC. 80. 1t shall be the duty of said Com
missioners of Charities and Corrections,
every three months to advertise for sealed
proposals for furnishing all supplies and
provisions necessary for the support and
maintenance of the inmates Of the Aims
House, and all persons committed to the
iail of Frederick county, and for all fuel
needed for said Aims House and Jail; and
| to award the contract or contracts therefor,
to the lowest responsible bidder, who shall
give bond to said Commissioners in such
penalty as they may prescribe for the faith
! full performance of such contract or con-
tracts, and no one Of said Commissioners
shall be allowed to be bidder for any such
contract, or be interested therein directly or
indirectly, and they shall have full power
to make such provision for the maintenance
and support of the inmates OF said Jail and
Aims House as they may deem necessary
until the contracts hCrcinbeforc provided
for can be made.
SEC. 81. 1t shall be the duty Of the County
Commissioners of Frederick County, to levy
for the use of the said Commissioners of
Charities and Corrections, annually such
sum or sums of money as said Commission
ers of Charities and Corrections may csi-
mate to be necessary for the purposes spcci-
fled in the foregoing sections of this Article,
and 10 pay over to said Commissioners of
Charities and Corrections the sums so lev
led, IN equal quarterly instalmcns, begin
ming with the end of the first three months
succeeding sad levy.
SEC. 80. 1t shall be the duty of said Com
mssioners of Charities and Corrections an
nually, in the month of January, to submit
under their 0aths or aflirmatons to the
County Commissioners of Frederick County,
a detailed statement of all rcccip pts and dis
burscmcnts of every kind whatsoever, and
shall file with said County Commissioners at
said time all vouchers, and copies OF all
contracts under which money has been ex-
pended, and full list of the names of all
persons confined in Jail, for whose support
and maintenance said Commissioners OF
Charities and Corrections have provided.
SEC. 3}3. 1t shall be the duty of the Shcr-
if of Frederick county, to furnish, under
oath, once each month, to said Commissions
ers of Charities and Corrections, full and
complete list of the names and descriptions
of all persons confined in the Jail of Fred
ericls county, with statement of the length
OF time and offence for which they are com
mittcd, and the name of the officer by whom
committed; for any neglect by the Sheriff to
comply with this or any other section OF this
Article, he shall he subject, upon indictment
and conviction, to fine of not less than five
hundred dollars.
SEC 3d. 1t shall also be the duty of said
Sheriff to exhibit to said Commissioners of
Charities and Corrections, whenever de-
handed by them, Or by either of them, all
books, papers and commitments kept by
him, pertaining to prisoners in the jail OF
Frederick county; and it shall likewise he
his duty to keep a correct and full schedule
or statement of all persons committed to
said Jail, showing the length of time for
which they are committed, tie offence for
which they are committed, and the name of
! the officer by whom committed, which seized
ulc or statement shall mt all times be opel. to
the inspection of said Commissioners Of
Charities and Corrections or either of them /;
for any neglect by the Sheriff to comply
with any provision of this section, he shall
| be liable to the fine prescribed in section
thirty-thrcc, of this Article.
| SEC. 35. 1t shall be the duty of said Com
missioncrs of Charities and Corrections,
should any balance remain in their hands
at the end of any year over and above the
expenditures for that year, to deduct such
balance from the estimate for the succeeding
year, and to make requisition on the County
Commissioners only for the balance; and 1t
shall likewise be their duty to keep the sew
eral accounts for the Jail and Aims House
separate and distinct, and to submit in their
annual report to the County Commissioners
separate statements respecting the receipts
and disbursements on account of said Jail
and said Aims House.
SEC. 2. And be 1t enacted, That this Act
shall take effect from the date of its passage.
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