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WASHINGTON COUNTY.
of the peace, and applied to the use of the poor of the said

county of Washington in such manner as the said trustees, and
their successors, may direct.

Parts of an
act repealed

SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That the second, third, fourth,
fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth sections of the act of
assembly, entitled, an act for the relief of the poor of Washing-
ton county, (and to which this act is a supplement,) be and the
same are hereby abrogated and repealed.

1805, ch. 7, an Assessment for Improvements.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act lo enlarge the powers of the
Trustees of the Poor in the several Counties therein designated. — 1809,
ch. 84.
See 'Frederick County,' title 'Poor,' ante page 1928.

AM additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act for the relief of
the Poor of Washington County.— 1816, ch. 104.

Powers of
present
trustees to

cease

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the office of the present trustees of the poor of Washing-
ton county shall cease and be at an end on the first Monday of
June next, and the appointment of the trustees of the poor of
said county shall, from and after the first Monday of May 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 Wash-
ington county shall be, and they are hereby authorized and
required, at their first meeting in May next, and at their first
meeting in the month of May in each succeeding year there-
after, to appoint three discreet and proper persons qualified
agreeably to the provisions of the original act and the supple-
ment thereto, and of this act, to be trustees of the poor of said
county from and after the first Monday of June next.

Court to
make out
certificates
of appoint-
ment.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
clerk of the said 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, endorsing
one of the said certificates for each of them respectively, which
said sheriff shall, within ten days thereafter, deliver one thereof
to each of the said trustees respectively ; and it shall there-
upon be the duty of the several trustees so appointed, and noti-
fied of such appointment, and who shall accept thereof, under
the penalty imposed by the supplement to the original act
upon any person appointed a trustee of the poor in virtue of
the said act for wilfully delaying or refusing to take upon him