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ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY.

Proviso.

execution of the duties of said office ; Porvided nevertheless,

that nothing herein contained shall prevent the said levy court

from re-appointing any of the existing trustees, if they in their

discretion shall deem it advisable and proper so to do.

Old trustees

.SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the existing trustees shall

to deliver
over books,

meet at the aforesaid alms-house on the second Monday of

&c.

April next, and deliver over to their successors, to be taken

under their care and management, all books and papeis, and all

and singular the property belonging to the aforesaid alms-house,

under the penalty of forty dollars each, to be recovered and ap-

plied as other fines and forfeituies are directed to be recoveied

and applied in the aforesaid original act to which this is a

supplementary act.

Powers,

SEC. 5. And be if enacted, That the trustees for the poor to be

penalties,
&c — pro-

appointed in virtue of this act, and their successors in that

perty vested

capacity hereby constitutes the trustees for the poor of Anne

Arundel county, shall respectively, forever have, hold, use, ex-

ercise and enjoy all the powers, authorities, rights, property,

liberties, privileges and immunities which have hitherto been

possessed, enjoyed and used, and shall be subject to all the

penalties for neglect of the duties of trustees for the poor of said

county, as are mentioned and declared in the said original act to

which this is a supplementary act, except the power of appoint-

ing new trustees or filling up casual vacancies in then own board,

and except so far as the same may be varied oi limited by the

provisions of this act ; and the alms-house situated in the same

county, and the lands, tenements, goods and chattels thereunto ap-

pertaining and belonging, shall be, and the same are hereby vested

in the trustees for the poor of the said county, and their suc-

cessors in that capacity to be appointed in virtue of this act, to

and for the uses and purposes mentioned and declared ip this

act, and the original act to which this is a supplementary act.

Vacancies.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That in all cases of vacancies hap-

pening by non-acceptance, death, resignation, removal out of

the county, or disqualification of any of the said trustees, the

vacancies thereby occasioned shall be filled up by the levy court

of said county at their next meeting which shall happen there-

after.

Accounts to

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the

be settled

trustees for the poor to be appointed in virtue of this act, under

annually.

the penalty of fifty dollars each, to be recovered and applied as

herein before directed, to make out and render to the said levy

court at their first meeting in the month of March in each and

every year, a statement of their accounts and expenditures, with

the necessary vouchers for the preceding year; which accounts

shall be passed and settled by the said levy court, previous to

the making the new appointments of trustees for the ensuing

year.