POOR.

1967

stances, as are prescribed by an act, entitled, an act to enlarge
further the powers of the trustees of the poor, in the several
counties therein mentioned, passed at November session,
eighteen hundred and four, and the supplements thereto.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act for the relief of the Poor of
Montgomery and liar ford Counties. — 1828, ch. 75.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the office of the present trustees for the poor of Harford
county shall cease and be at an end on the second Monday of
April next, and that the appointment of the trustees of the poor
of said county, from and after the first Monday of March next,
shall be vested in the commissioners of said county.

Office of
present
trustees to
cease.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That the commissioners of Har-
ford county, shall be and they are hereby authorized and re-
quired, at their first meeting in the month of March in each
succeeding year thereafter, to appoint five discreet and proper
persons, one to be chosen from each district of said county,
qualified agreeable to the provisions of the original act to which
this is a supplementary act, and of this act, to be trustees for the
poor of said county.

Trustees
how to bo
appointed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That it shall be the duty of the
clerk of said commissioners, within five days after such appoint-
ment and within the like time after any future appointment, to
be made in virtue of this act, to make out and deliver to the
sheriff of said county, a certificate of the appointments of each
oof the said trustees so appointed, or to be appointed, endorsing
one of the said certificates for each of them respectively, which
the said sheriff, within six days thereafter, shall deliver one
thereof to each of the said trustees respectively, and it shall
thereupon be the duty of the several trustees 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 for 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 in April
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

A certifi-
cate of ihcir
appoint-
ment to be
made out.

said county, and qualified* in the manner prescribed by the
original act to which this is a supplementary act, and thence-
forward to proceed in the execution of the duties of said office;

(*qualify)

Provided nevertheless, that nothing heroin contained shall pre-
vent the said commissioners from re-appointing any of the ex-
isting trustees, if they, in their discretion, shall deem it ad-
visable 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 second Monday of

Trustees to
meet.