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poor and shall be paid to the said out-pensioners, or any other

person whom the levy courts respectively shall direct.

SEC. 2. Repealed after Jan. 1, 1807, by 1805, ch. 20.

SEC 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall continue and

Duration.

be in full force until the first day of October, eighteen hundred

and ten, and until the next session of assembly thereafter.

Continued by the annual continuing law,

AN ACT Supplementary to an ACT, entitled, an Act for the relief of the

Poor within the several Counties therein mentioned — 1819, ch. 98.

Merged in 1821, ch. 174.

AN ACT for the relief of the Poor of Anne Arundel County, being

Supplementary to the Act, entitled, an Act for the relief of the Poor of

of the several Counties therein mentioned. — 1821, ch. 174.

SEC. 1. De it enact 'ed, by the General Assembly of Maryland ,

Powers of

That the office of the present trustees for the poor of Anne

trustees to

Arnndel county, shall cease and be at an end on the second

Monday of April next, and that the appointment of the trustees

for the poor of said county, from and after the first Monday of

March next, shall be vested in the levy court of said county.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the levy court of Anne

Levy court

Arundel county, shall be, and they are hereby authorized and

to appoint

required at their first meeting in the month of March in each

succeeding year thereafter, to appoint five discreet and proper

persons, qualified agreeably to the provisions of the original act to

which this is a supplementary act, and of this act, to be trusteed

for the poor of said county.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the

Certificates

clerk of said levy court, within five days after such appointment,

of appoint-
ment; trus-

and within the like time after any future appointment to be

tees to meet

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

said trustees so appointed or to be appointed, endorsing one of

the said certificates for each of them respectively ; which said

sheriff, within six days thereafter, shall deliver one thereof to

each of the said trustees respectively; and it shall thereupon

be the duty of the several trustees appointed and notified of such

appointment, and who shall accept thereof, (under the penalty

imposed by the sard original act upon any person appointed a

trustee for the poor in virtue of the said act for wilfully refusing

or delaying to take upon him the duties of the said office,) to

meet on the said second Monday of April next ensuing such

appointment, except prevented by sickness or other unavoidable

accident; and in such case, as soon thereafter as the disability

shall be removed, at the alms-house of the said county, and

qualify in the manner prescribed by the original act to which

this is a supplementary act, and thenceforward to proceed in the