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SOMERSET COUNTY.

tively ; which said sheriff shall, within six days thereafter,
deliver one thereof to each of the said trustees respectively ;
and it shall thereupon be the duty of the several trustees so
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 first Tuesday
of July next ensuing such appointment, and on the first Tues-
day in May in every year thereafter, except prevented by
sickness, or other unavoidable accident; and in such case, us
soon thereafter as the disability shall be removed, at the poor-
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 office.

Meeting in
July next.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the existing trustees shall
meet at the aforesaid poor-house on the first Tuesday of July
next, and deliver over to their successors, to be taken under
their care and management all books and papers, and a schedule
of all and singular the property belonging to the aforesaid poor-
house under the penalty of forty dollars each ; to be recovered
and applied as other fines and forfeitures are directed to be re-
covered and applied, in the aforesaid original act to which this
is a supplementary act.

Powers
vested.

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 constituted the trustees for the poor of Somer-
set 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 original act,
to which this is a supplementary act, except the power of ap-
pointing new trustees, or 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 poor-house situ-
ated in the said county, and the lands, tenements, goods and
chattels thereto appertaining and belonging, shall be, and the
same are hereby vested in the trustees for the poor of said
county, and their successors in that capacity to be appointed
in virtue of this act, to and for the use and purposes mentioned,
and declared in this act and in the original act to which this is
a supplementary act.

Vacancies.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That in all cases of vacancies
happening by non-acceptance, death, resignation, removal out