1968

HARFORD COUNTY.

April next, and deliver over to their successors, to be taken
under their care and management, all books and papers, and
all and singular the property belonging to the aforesaid alms-
house, under the penalty of forty dollars each, to be recovered
and applied as other fines and forfeitures are directed to be
recovered and applied in the aforesaid original act to which
this is a supplementary act.

To exercise
powers
hitherto
possessed
by former
act

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the trustees of the poor, to
be appointed in virtue of this act, and their successors in that
capacity, hereby constitutes the trustees for the poor of Harford
county, shall respectively, forever, have, hold, use, exercise
and enjoy, all the powers, authorities, rights, property, liber-
ties, privileges and immunities, which have hitherto been
possessed, enjoyed and used, and shall be subject to all the
penalties for neglect. of the duties of trustees for the poor of
said county, as are mentioned and declared in the said original
act to which this is a supplementary act, except the power of
appointing new trustees, of filling up casual vacancies in their
own board, and except so far as the same may be varied or
limited by the provisions of this act ; and the alms-house
situated in the same county, and the lands, tenements, goods
and chattels, thereunto appertaining and belonging, shall be
and the same are hereby vested in the trustees for the poor of
the said county, and their successors in that capacity to be ap-
pointed in virtue of this act, to and for the uses and purposes
mentioned and declared in this act, and the original act to
which this is a supplamentary act.

Vacancies.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted. That 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 com-
missioners of said county at their next meeting which shall
happen thereafter.

Settlement
of accounts
to be made
annually.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
trustees for the poor to be appointed in virtue of this act, under
the penalty of fifty dollars each, to be recovered and applied
as herein before directed, to make out and render to the said
commissioners, at their first meeting in the month of March in
each and every year, a statement of their accounts and expen-
ditures, with the necessary vouchers, for the preceding year,
which accounts shall be passed and settled by the commis-
sioners previous to the making the new appointments of trus-
tees for the ensuing year.

Accounts
settled by
overseer to
be on oath.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That all accounts settled by the
overseer of the poor with the trustees, shall be on oath, or
affirmation, that they are just and true, which oath, (or affirma-
tion,) shall be administered by any one of the trustees, and the