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SOMERSET COUNTY.

	which this act is supplementary, shall be held at the poor- house in said county.
Compensa- tion.	SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That the clerk of the levy court shall be allowed twenty-five cents for each certificate of appointment 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 and allowances are to be levied, collected and paid over as other county charges are.
Power to sell, &c.	SEC. 12. And be it enacted. That the trustees so to be ap- pointed by the levy court as aforesaid, or a majority of them, be, and they are hereby fully authorized and empowered, if, and whenever it shall seem to them advantageous, to sell at public or private sale the lands and premises, commonly called the poor-house lands, or by whatever other name or names it may be known, belonging to the said county, and now used as a poor-house, and convey the same to the purchaser or pur- chasers, in fee simple, by a good and sufficient deed of bargain and sale, to be acknowledged and recorded according to law ; and to apply the proceeds thereof to the purchase of such other land, not less than two hundred nor more than five hundred acres, as they shall think most eligible, and to the building thereon, or repairing, if necessary, such house or houses, as they shall think most suitable for the accommodation of the poor of the said county, and the balance, if any, to pay over to the said levy court for the use of the said county.
Levy.	SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That the levy court of Somer- set county are hereby authorized and empowered to levy and assess on the assessable property of Somerset county, a suffi- cient sum of money, not exceeding four thousand dollars, to satisfy and pay for land or lands which shall or may be pur- chased by the trustees of the poor of Somerset county, agree- able to the provisions of this act, and the same to have levied and collected, as other county charges are ; Provided, that not more than one thousand dollars shall be levied and collected in any one year, until the whole sum is levied, collected and paid over to the trustees of the poor or their order.
Badges.	SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That so much of the original act to which this (is a supplementary act) as compels the trus- tees of the poor, or the overseer of the poor, to place badges upon the paupers, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Badge.	SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, the said trustees, or the said overseer of the poor, may at their or his discretion, use the badge by way of disci- pline.
Repeal.	SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That any thing in the said ori- ginal act to which this is a supplementary act, as relates to