POOR.

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AN ACT, entitled, a Supplement to an Act for the relief of the Poor in
Saint Mary's County .—1822, ch. 166.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the justices of the levy court for Saint Mary's county, be,
and they are hereby authorized and empowered to keep as
many out-pcnsioners as they in their wisdom may think pro-
per ; Provided, no such pension shall exceed the sum of thirty
dollars, for each and every cut-pensioner so allowed.

Levy court
authorized.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said levy court, be, and
they are hereby authorized and empowered to levy on the as-
sessable property of the said county, such sums of money, as
would be required to carry into effect this act.

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act for the relief of
the Poor of Saint Mary's County .— 1837, ch. 32.

Levy.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the office of the present trustees of the poor of Saint
Mary's county, shall cease and be at an end on the first Mon-

Trustees
vacated.

day of June next, and the appointment of the trustees of the
poor of said county, shall, from and after the first Monday of
May next, be vested in the levy court of said county.

Levy court
to appoint.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the levy court of Saint
Mary's county, shall be, and they are hereby authorized and
required at their first meeting in May next, and at their first
meeting in the month of Maj in each succeeding year there-
after, to appoint five discreet and proper persons, qualified
agreeably to the provisions of the original act, and the supple-
ments thereto, and of this act, to be trustees of the poor of said
county, from and after the first Monday of June next.

Five annu-
ally in
May.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
clerk of said county, within five days after such appointment,
and within the like time after any future appointments to be
made in virtue of this act, to make out and deliver to the
sheriff of said county, a certificate of the appointment of each
of the trustees so appointed, endorsing one of the said certifi-
cates for each of them respectively, which said sheriff shall,
within ten days thereafter, deliver one thereof to each of the
trustees respectively ; and it shall be the duty of the several
trustees so appointed, and notified of such appointment, and
who shall accept thereof, under the penalty imposed by the
original act, upon any person appointed a trustee of the poor
in virtue of the said act, for wilfully delaying or refusing to

Notice of
oppoint-
ment.

take upon him the duties of the said office, to meet on the first
Monday of June next ensuing such appointment, except pre-
vented by sickness, or other unavoidable accident, and in such
case as soon thereafter as the disability shall be removed, at
the poor-house of said county, and qualify in the same manner

Annual
meeting in
June to
qualify, &c.