POOR.

AN ACT to enlarge the Powers of the Trustees of the Poor in Somerset
County.— 1808, ch. 64.

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Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
it shall and may be lawful for the trustees of the poor in
Somerset county, and they are hereby authorized and empow-
ered, in their discretion, to keep any number of out-pen-
sioncrs, and to allow each of such pensioners an annual pen-
sion, not exceeding thirty dollars, to be paid at such time or
times, as they shall direct.

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act for the relief of
the Poor in the Counties of Somerset and Dorchester, passed in seven-

Powers of
tho trustees
of the poor
extended.

teen hundred and eighty-five,* and the several supplements thereto.
1817, ch. 56.

*Ch. 57.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
each of the trustees of the poor of Somerset county for every
day he shall serve in discharge of his duties under the provi-
sions of the act to which this is a supplement, shall receive
the sum of two dollars, to be levied on the county, and paid to
him by the collector.

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act for the relief of
the Poor in the Counties of Dorchester and Somerset. — 1822, ch. 52.

Trustees'
allowance.

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

Levy court
to appoint
trustees.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the levy court of Somerset
county, shall be, and they are hereby authorized and required,
at their meeting in April next, and at their first meeting in the
month of April in each succeeding year thereafter, to appoint
seven discreet and proper persons qualified agreeable to the
provisions of the original act, to which this is a supplement,
and of this act, to be trustees for the poor of said county ;
Provided nevertheless, that nothing herein contained shall pre-
vent 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.

Annual ap-
pointment.

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 appointments
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, en-
dorsing one of the said certificates for each of them respec-

Notice of
appoint-
ment, &c.