Acts. 491

tive County and other proper Officers and Servants as to them shall
appear necessary for carrying on the Business of the said Corpora-
tion and they or the major Part of them shall and may agree and
they are hereby impowered to pay the said Overseer as a Salary out
of the Tobacco and Money raised and collected as aforesaid a sum

Liber H. S.
No. 1

not exceeding eighty Pounds Current Money per Annum and so
pro rato during his Continuance in Office and shall then take and the
said Overseer and every other Overseer to be appointed shall and he
is hereby obliged to enter into a Bond with sufficient Sureties in the
penalty of two hundred Pounds Current Money payable to the said
Trustees for the Poor conditioned as follows to wit: "The Condition
of the above Obligation is such that if the above bound A. B. as

[and impow-
ered to pay
a Salary, not
exceeding
8o 1. per
annum]

Overseer of the Alms and Work House in County
shall well and truly discharge his Duty in the said Station and more
particularly according to the Directions of the Act of Assembly
entituled An Act for the Relief of the Poor within the several Coun-
ties therein mentioned then the above Obligation to be void other-
wise to remain in full fforce and Virtue in Law"

[Overseers
to give Bond
in the Pen-
alty of 200 l.
for the faith-
ful discharge
of his Duty]

And be it further Enacted That the said Trustees or the major
Part of them shall and they are hereby directed and impowered to
remove such Overseer and all other Officers by them to be appointed
in Pursuance of this Act at their Direction and to proceed to choose
in their Place and stead

[and to be
removed at
the Discre-
tion of the
Trustees]

And be it further Enacted That the said Trustees or the major
Part of them shall and they are hereby directed and enjoined to meet
at the Alms and Work House in each respective County four Times
in the Year to wit in the first Week of February May August and
November or oftener if it should by them be deemed necessary to
make and ordain by a Majority of Votes of such as may be present
all such Good and wholesome Ordinances Rules and Bye Laws as
they shall think convenient and necessary for the Direction Govern-
ment and support of such Alms and Work-House and also for the
Maintenance and Employment of all such Poor Persons as shall be
taken under their Care and of all Vagrants Beggars Vagabonds
and other Offenders that shall be committed thereto by Virtue of this
Act all which Ordinances Rules and Bye Laws shall be from Time
to Time inviolably observed by all Persons concerned according to

[Trustees to
meet at the
Alms, and
Work-
Houses Four
Times a
Year, to
make Rules
for the Gov-
ernment, and
support
thereof, &c]

the Tenor and effect thereof

And be it further Enacted that the said Overseer shall keep a fair
and regular List of all Poor, Beggars, Vagrants Vagabonds and
other Offenders who shall be committed to their respective Alms
and Work Houses and also fair and regular Accounts in Writing of
all Materials and other Things coming to his Hands as Overseer
aforesaid and of all Expences and Charges attending their Mainte-
nance and support and of all Monies received by him for the Sale of
the produce of their Labour and otherwise as Overseer aforesaid and

[The Over-
seer to keep
a regular
List of all
Poor, Va-
grants, &c.
and also fair
Accounts of
all Materials,
and Monies,
received for
the Produce
of Labour]