POOR.

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make out and tender to the said levy court at their first meet-
ing in the month of May in each and every year, a statement of
their accounts and expenditures, with the necessary vouchers
for the preceding year ; which accounts shall be passed and
settled by the said levy court, previous to making the new
appointments of trustees for the ensuing year.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That all accounts settled by the
overseer of the poor, shall be on oath or affirmation, that they
are just and true, which oath or affirmation shall be adminis-
tered by one of the trustees, and the overseer shall, at the ex-
piration of each and every year, return to the said trustees, on
oath or affirmation, a fair and regular account in writing of all
the stock, farming utensils and other things then remaining in
his hands, or which may come to his hands aforesaid, together
with a statement of the crop and other articles made on the
estate of the alms-house, and an account of all the expenses and
charges attending the maintenance and support of the poor in
said alms-house, and all moneys received by him for the sales
of the produce of their labour and otherwise ; which said
statements and accounts, the trustees are hereby directed to
lay before the levy court at their annual meeting in May.

Overseer's
account.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted. That all the meetings of the said
trustees for the poor, necessary to be held for carrying into
effect the provisions of this act, or of the original act, to which
this is a supplementary act, shall be held at the alms-house in
said county, except such meetings as may be necessary for the
settlement and passing their accounts with the levy court.

Place of
meeting.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted. That the clerk of the levy court
shall be allowed twenty-five cents for each certificate of ap-
pointment, which he shall make out and deliver to the sheriff,
and the sheriff shall be allowed fifty cents for the delivery of
each of the said certificates to the persons appointed, all of
which charges are to be levied, collected and paid over as other
county charges are.

Compensa-
tions.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That from and after the organiza-
tion of this institution, under the provisions of this act, it shall
not be lawful for any trustee to furnish on his own account,
supplies of any description, for the use of the alms-house, and
if any trustee shall in violation of this act, furnish supplies to
said institution, he shall upon evidence of the fact being offered
to the levy court of the county aforesaid, forfeit for the use
and benefit of the institution, whatever supplies he may have
furnished, and forever after be rendered incapable of acting as
one of the trustees to said institution.

Prohibition.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That any thing in the original
act to which this is a supplementary act, as relates to Prince
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Repeal.