POOR.

1939

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 said county, a certificate of the appointment of each
of the 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 there-
upon 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 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 first 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

Certificates
of such ap-
pointment
to bo de*
livered to
each per-
son, &c.

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

Proviso.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the existing trustees shall
meet at the aforesaid alms-house on the first 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 dollars each, to be re-
covered 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
books, Sec.
to their suc-
cessors
under a
certain
penalty.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the trustees of the poor (o
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 trustees
of the poor of said county, as are mentioned and declared in
the said original act, except the power of appointing new trus-
tees, or filling up casual vacancies in their own board ; and in
all cases of vacancies happening by non-acceptance, death, re-
signation, 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
vested with
powers as
declared in
original act.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
trustees of the poor to be appointed in virtue of this act, under
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To render a
statement of
accounts to