POOR.

1901

agreeably to the provisions of the original act and the supple-
ments thereto, and of this act, to be trustees of the poor of the
said county from and after the second Monday of June next.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
clerk of the said court, within five days after such appointment,
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 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 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 by such appointment, and who shall accept thereof,
(under the penalty imposed by the said original 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 second Monday of June
next ensuing such appointment, (except prevented by sickness
or other unavoidable accident, and in such case as soon there-
after as the disability shall be removed,) at the alms-house of
the said county, and qualify in the manner prescribed by the
original act, and thenceforward to proceed in the execution of
the duties of said office.

Clerk's doty
afterr the
said ap-
pointment}
sheriff's
duty; duty
of trustees.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the existing trustees shall
meet at the aforesaid alms-house on the second Monday of June
next, and deliver over to their successors all books and papers,
and all and singular the property belonging to the aforesaid
alms-house, under the penalty of twenty dollais each, to be
recovered and applied as other fines and forfeitures are directed
to be recovered and applied in the aforesaid original act, or the
supplements thereto, to be taken under the care and manage-
ment of the said newly appointed trustees.

Existing
trustees to
deliver over
to their
successors
all books,
papers and
property.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the trustees of the poor
to be appointed in virtue of this act, shall and may have, and
they are hereby invested with all the powers and authorities,
and subject to all the penalties for neglect of the duties of trus-
tees of the poor of said county, as are mentioned and declared
in the said original act, except the power of appointing new
trustees, or filling up casual vacancies in their own board ; and
in all cases of vacancies happening 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 said levy court, at their next meeting
which shall happen thereafter.

Trustees in-
vested with
powers and
authorities,
and subject
to penalties.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
rustces of the poor to be appointed in virtue of this act, under

Duty of
trustee*.