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county, during the continuance of this act, to appoint a fit
person to be overseer of the alms and work-house in the said
county, and other proper officers and servants, as to them shall
appear necessary for carrying on the business of the said cor-
poration, and they, or the major part of them, shall and may
agree, and they are hereby empowered to pay the said over-
seer, out of the money raised and collected as aforesaid, a sum
not exceeding seventy-five 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 for 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 Kent county, shall
well and truly discharge 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 Kent county, then
the above obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full
force and virtue in law.'

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That the said trustees, 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.

May re-
move over-
seers, kc.

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 the said county
four times in the year, in the first week in January, May,
August and November, or oftener, if it should by them be
deemed necessary, to make and ordain, by a majority of votes
of such as may be present, all such good and wholesome ordi-
nances, rules and by-laws, as they shall think convenient and
necessary for the direction, government and support, of such
alms and work-house, and also for the maintenance and em-
ployment of all such poor persons as shall be taken under
their care, and of all vagrants, beggars, vagabonds and other
offenders, that shall be committed thereto by virtue of this
act; all which ordinances, rules and by-laws, shall be from
time to time inviolably observed by all persons concerned,
according to the tenor and effect thereof.

And meet
four limes a
year, &c.

SEC. 13. And be it enacted. That the said overseer shall
keep a fair and regular list of all poor, and of all beggars, va-
grants, vagabonds and other offenders, who shall be committed
to the said alms and work-house, and also fair and regular ac-
counts in writing of all materials and other things coming to his

Overseer to
keep a list,
&c.