POOR.

1385

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That all accounts settled by the

Annual

overseer of the poor with the trustees, shall be on oath (or affir-

statement
of stock,

mation,) that they are just and true, which oath (or affirmation)

&c on oath.

shall be administered by any one of the trustees ; and the said

overseer shall, at the expiration of each and every year, return

to the said trustees, on oath (or affirmation,) a fair and regular

account in writing of all the stock, farming utensils and other

things now remaining in his hands, or which may come to his

hands aforesaid, together with a statement of the crop and other

articles made on the estate of the said alms-house, and an ac-

count of all the expenses and charges attending the maintenance

and support of the poor in said alms-house, and of all moneys

received by him for the sales of the produce of their labour and

otherwise ; which said statements and accounts the trustees are

hereby directed to lay before the levy court at their said annual

meeting.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted. That all the meetings of the said

Meetings—

trustees for the poor, necessary to be held for carrying into effect

where to be
held.

the provisions of this act, or of the original act to which this act

is supplementary, shall be held at the alms-house in the said

county, except such meetings as may be necessary for the settle-

ment and passing their accounts with the levy court.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted. That the clerk of the said court

Clerk's and

shall be allowed twenty-five cents for each certificate of appoint-

sheriff's
fees.

ment which he shall make out and deliver to the sheriff, and

the sheriff shall be allowed fifty cents for the delivery of each

of the said certificates to the persons appointed ; all of which

charges and allowances are to be levied, collected and paid over

as other county charges are.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted. That the trustees so to be ap-

Trustees

pointed by the levy court as aforesaid, or a majority of them, by

may sell
poor-house;

and with the consent of the levy court of the county aforesaid, be

proceeds.

and they are hereby fully authorized and empowered, if, and

whenever it shall seem to them advantageous, forthwith to sell

at public or private sale, the lands and premises commonly

called Strawberry Hill, belonging to the said county, and now

used as a poor-house, and convey the same to the purchaser in

fee simple, by a good and sufficient deed of bargain and sale to

be acknowledged and recorded according to law, and to apply

the proceeds thereof to the purchase of such other land, not ex-

ceeding ten acres nor more than eight miles from the city of

Annapolis, as they shall think most eligible, and to the building

thereon, or repairing if necessary, such house or houses as they

shall think most suitable for the accommodation of the poor of

said county, and the balance, if any, to pay over to the said levy

court for the use of the said county ; Provided, they shall have

Proviso.

contracted for the purchase of a lot situated as aforesaid, before

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