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of the county, or disqualification of any of the trustees, the
vacancies thereby occasioned shall be filled up by the levy
court of said county, at their next meeting which shall happen
thereafter.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
trustees for the poor to be appointed in virtue of this act, under
the penalty of fifty dollars each, to be recovered and applied
as herein before directed, to make out, and render to the said
levy court at their first meeting in the month of April 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 the making of the new appointments of trustees
for the ensuing year.

Account.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted. That the trustees for the poor to
be appointed under this act, shall at their first meeting in July
next, and at their annual meeting in May thereafter proceed to
appoint an overseer of the poor of said county, according to
the provisions of the eleventh section of the original act to
which this act is a supplement, and also to appoint one of their
own body clerk to the trustees for the poor of said county,
whose duty it shall be to keep the accounts of the said trustees
for the poor, and to prepare all necessary statements for settle-
ment with the levy court, and for whose compensation the said
court shall and may allow such sum as they may think just.
Modified by 1826, ch. 26.

Overseer
and clerk.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That all accounts settled by the
overseer of the poor, with the trustees, shall be on oath (or
affirmation) that they are just and true; which oath (or affir-
mation) shall be administered by any one of the trustees ; and
the said overseer shall, on the first Monday in April, one thou-
sand eight hundred and twenty-four, and at the expiration of
each and every year thereafter, 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, now remain-
ing in his hands, or which may come to his hands as aforesaid,
together with a statement of the crop and other articles, made
on the estate of the said poor-house, and an account of all the
expenses and charges attending the maintenance and support
of the poor in said poor-house, and of 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 said annual
meeting.

Overseer
shall
account.

SEC. 10. 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
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Place of
meeting.