2004

KENT COUNTY.

	at their first meeting in the month of March in each succeed- ing year thereafter, to appoint five discreet and proper persons, qualified agreeably to the provisions of the original act, to which this is a supplementary act, and of this act, to be trus- tees for the poor of said county.
Certificates of appoint- ment.	SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the clerk of said levy court, 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 appointment of each of the said trustees so appointed, or to be appointed, endorsing one of the said certificates for each of them respectively ; which 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 of 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 or work- house of the said county, and qualify in the manner prescribed by the original act to which this is a supplementary act, and thenceforward to proceed in the execution of the duties of said
Proviso.	office ; Provided nevertheless, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the said levy court from re-appointing any of the existing trustees, if they in their discretion shall deem it advisable and proper so to do.
Property to be deliver- ed over.	SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the existing trustees shall meet at the aforesaid alms or work-house on the second Mon- day of 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 or work-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.
Power of trustees.	SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the trustees for the poor, to be appointed in virtue of this act, and their successors, in that capacity, hereby constitutes the trustees for the poor of Kent county, shall respectively for ever have, hold, use, exercise and enjoy, all the powers, authorities, rights, property, liber- ties, privileges and immunities, which have hitherto been pos- sessed, enjoyed and used, and shall be subject to all the penal- ties for neglect of the duties of trustees for the poor of said