Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1916-05-20
PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS
FOR ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY.

PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS
FOR ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY.
of Anne Arundel county, and il is here
by directed and required to appropriate
from and set aside out of the monies
received from the State of Maryland in
quarterly distribution, other than the
School Book Fund, and Immediately
upon receipt thereof, such an amount
as may be necessary, together with the
amount received from Anne Arundel
county under this Act to pay the sal
aries of all the teachers in full as pro
vided by this Act, and the amount so
paid over to said Board of County
school Commissioners by the Treasurer
of Anne Arundel county, together with
the amount appropriated from and set
aside out of each quarterly distribution
from the State, as hereinbefore provid.
ed, shall be kept by the Treasurer OF
the Board of School Commissioners as
a separate fund from all other funds
received by him, and shall be devoted
to no other purpose or object than the
payment of the salaries provided for
by this Act.
Section 4. Be il further enacted,
That all Acts or parts of Acts incon-
sistent herewith be, and the same are
hereby repealed.
Approved:
EMERSON c. HARRINGTON,
Governor.
PHILIP ID. LAIRD,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
PETER j. CAMPBELL,
President of the Senate.
Office of the Secretary of the Senate:
| hereby certify, That the aforegoing
is true copy of an Act of the General
Assembly of Maryland, passed at the
January Session, 1916.
p. WATSON WEBB,
Secretary of the Senate.
CHAPTER 661.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with
amendments, Sections !, 3, 6, 8, 10, IL,
IA, II, 21 and 27 of Article 2, of the
Code of Public Local Laws, title
"Anne Arundel County" subtitle
"Almshouse, - as amended by Chapter
l66, Acts of 1892, and by Chapter AS,
Acts of 1894, the subtitle of which was
changed by Chapter 80, Acts of 1906,
to "Anne Arundel County Home -;
and to add an additional Section to
said Article to be known as Section
27-A.
Section l. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, That Sections
|, 3, 6, 9, 10, IL, IA, II, 81 and 27 of
Article of the Code of Public Local
Laws, title "Anne Arundel County" +"
subtitle "Almshouse,' as amended by
Chapter 166, Acts of 1892, and by Chap
ter 445, Acts of 1894, which subtitle was
changed by Chapter 80, Acts of 1906, to
Anne Arundel County Home"; be re-
pealed and re-enacted with amendments,
and that an additional section to be
known as Section 27-A be enacted, 80 that
said subtitle of said Article shall read
as follows:
Sec. /. The County Commissioners
shall on or before the first day of July,
1916, appoint three men and three women
Trustees of the Poor for Anne Arundel
county, their terms to begin July, 1916,
and their terms to be determined by lot !;
one man and one woman of the above
named Trustees shall be thus selected to
serve for period of two (2) years, one
man and one woman for a period of four
(4) years, and one man and one woman
for a period of six (6) years, from the
said first day of July, 1916. And every
two years from said day, the County
Commissioners of Anne Arundel county
shall appoint one man and one woman
resident in said county within fifteen
(15) miles of the County Home to fill the
places of the two Trustees whose terms
shall then expire, and in appointing to
any vacancy howsoever caused, the per-
son chosen by the County Commissioners
shall be of the same sex as the Trustee
whom the appointee is to succeed.
Sec. 8. The said Trustees shall, in ac-
cepting such appointment, take the fol.
lowing oath before the Clerk of the Cir
cult Court for Anne Arundel county
81, .............., in the presence of
Almighty God, do solemnly promise and
declare that / will duly and faithfully
discharge the duties and trusts commit
ted to me as Trustee Of the Poor of Anne
Arundel County, according to the best of
my skill and judgment, and that will
not directly or indirectly furnish supplies
of any description for the use of said
Almshouse or County Home"
See. 6. The Trustees so appointed and
qualified are body polite, with full
power and authority to sue and be sued,
by the name of ''The Trustees of the
Anne Arundel County Home" and by
that name they may take and hold any
gift, donation or present which shall be
given, devised or bequeathed to them for
the support and maintenance of the poor
in said county; and they may purchase
and hold, sell or convey, by and with the
consent of the County Commissioners of
Anne Arundel County, any land, tene-
ments and hereditaments for the purpose
of improving the conditions Of the poor
of said county.
Sec. 9. They shall make out and rem.
der to the County Commissioners, at their
first meeting in October in 1916, and
every six months thereafter, semi-annual
reports, embracing statehent of their
accounts and expenditures, with necessary
vouchers of preceding half-year; and the