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CECIL COUNTY.

A further SUPPLEMENT Co an ACT, entitled, an Act for the relief of the
Poor of Cecil County.— 1804, ch. 58.

Appoint-
ment of
trustees
vested in
levy court

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the office of the present trustees of the poor of Cecil
county, shall cease and be at an end on the first Monday of
May next, and the appointment of the trustees of the poor of
said county, shall, from and after the first Monday of April
next, be vested in the levy court of said county.

To appoint
five discreet
persons to
be trustees.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That the levy court of Cecil
county shall be, and they are hereby authorized and required,
at their first meeting in April next, and at their first meeting
in the month of April in each succeeding year thereafter, to
appoint five discreet and proper persons, qualified agreeably to
the provisions of the original act, and the supplement thereto,
and of this act, to be trustees of the poor of the said county
from and after the first Monday of May next.

Certificates
of their ap-
pointment
to be made
out; time of
meeting.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
clerk of the said court, within five days after such appoint-
ment, 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 the said county a certificate of the appointment of
each of the said trustees so appointed, or to be appointed, en-
dorsing one of the said certificates for each of them lespec-
tively, which said sheriff shall, within six days thereafter,
deliver one thereof to each of the said trustees respectively,
and it shall thereupon 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 said oiigi-
nal act upon any person appointed a trustee of 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 first
Monday of May 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 alms and work-house of the said county, and qualify in the
manner prescribed by the original act, and thenceforward to

Proviso

proceed in the execution of the duties of said office; Provided
nevertheless, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the
said court from re-appointing any of existing trustees, not ex-
ceeding five, if they, in their discretion, shall deem it advisable
and proper so to do.

Existing
trustees to
deliver all
books and
papers to
their suc-
cessors.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the existing trustees shall
meet at the aforesaid alms and work-house on the first Monday
of May next, and deliver over to their successors all books and
papers, and all and singular the property belonging to the
aforesaid alms and work-house, under the penalty of twenty