1962

HARFORD COUNTY.

for the use and employment of all the poor, and all beggars,
vagrants, vagabonds and offenders, who shall be able to work,
and who shall be committed by virtue of this act.

Trustees to
meet year-
ly, &c.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That the said trustees, or a ma-
jor part of them, shall and they are hereby authorized, directed
and enjoined, to meet together between the first and tenth day
of November yearly, and at such other times as they shall
judge necessary, at the alms and work-house in their said
counties respectively, during the continuance of this act, to
appoint a fit person to be overseer of the alms and work-house
in their said county, and other proper officers and servants as
to them shall appear necessary for carrying on the business of
the said corporation, and they, or the major part of them, shall
and may agree, and they are hereby empowered to pay the said
overseer, out of the money raised and collected as aforesaid, a
sum not exceeding seventy pounds current money per annum,
as a salary, and so pro rata during his continuance in office,
and shall then take bond, which the said overseer, and any
other overseer to be appointed, shall and is hereby obliged to
enter into, with good and sufficient sureties, in the penalty of
two hundred pounds current money, payable to the said trus-
tees of the poor, conditioned as follows, to wit: 'The condition
of the above obligation is such, that if the above bound A. B.
as overseer of the alms and work-house in Montgomery or
Harford county, as the case may be, shall well and truly dis-
charge his duty in the said station, and more particularly
according to the directions of the act of assembly, entitled, an
act for the relief of the poor in Montgomery and llarford coun-
ties, then, the above obligation to be void, otherwise to remain
in full force and virtue in law.'

May re-
move over-
seers, &c.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted. That the said trustees respec-
tively, or a major part of them, shall and they are hereby
directed and empowered to remove such overseer, and all
other officers by them to be appointed in pursuance of this
act, at their discretion, and to choose others in their place
and stead.

And meet
four times a
year, &c.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That the said trustees, or the
major part of them, shall and they are hereby directed and en-
joined to meet at the alms and work-house in their said coun-
ties respectively four times in the year, in the first week in
January, May, August and November, or ofteuer, if it should
by them be deemed necessary, to make and ordain, by a majo-
rity of votes of such as may be present, all such good and
wholesome ordinances, rules and by-laws, as they shall think
convenient and necessary for the direction, government and
support, of the alms and work-house in their county, and also
for the cleanliness, maintenance and cmulovinent of all such