POOR.

the duties of the said office, to meet on the said first Monday
of June next ensuing such appointment, (except prevented by
sickness, or other unavoidable accident, and in such case as
soon thereafter as the disability shall be removed,) at the alms-
house of said county, and qualify in the manner prescribed by
the original act, and thenceforward proceed in the execution

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of the duties of said office ; Provided nevertheless, that nothing
herein contained shall prevent the said court from re-appoint-
ing any of the existing trustees, if they in their discretion
shall deem it advisable and proper so to do.

Proviso.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the existing trustees shall
meet at the aforesaid alms-house on the first Monday of June
next, and deliver over to their successors all books and papers,
and all and singular the property belonging to the aforesaid
alms-house, under the penalty of twenty dollars each ; to be re-
covered and applied as other fines and forfeitures are directed
to be recovered and applied, in the supplement to the original
act, to be taken under the care and management of the said
newly appointed trustees.

Present
trustees to
deliver
books, &c.
to their
successors.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted. That the trustees of the poor to
be appointed in virtue of this act, shall and may have, and are
hereby invested with the powers and authorities, and subject
to all the penalties for neglect of the duties of trustees of the
poor of said county, as are mentioned and declared in the said
original act, and the supplement thereto, except the power of
appointing new trustees, or of filling up casual vacancies in
their own board ; and in all cases of vacancies happening by
non-acceptance, death, resignation, removal out of the county,
or disqualification of any of the said trustees, the vacancies
thereby occasioned shall be filled up by the said levy court at
their next meeting which shall happen thereafter.

Trustees
powers —

vacancies

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
trustees of 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 May every year, a statement of
their accounts and expenditures, with the necessary vouchers
for the preceding year, which accounts shall be settled and
passed by the said court previous to the making out the new
appointments of trustees.

Statements
of accounts
to be ren-
dered to
levy court.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That all accounts settled by the
treasurer or overseer of the poor with the trustees, shall be on
oath, or affirmation, that they are just and true, which oath or
affirmation shall be administered by any one of the trustees.

Accounts to
be settled
on oath.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That all the meetings of the
trustees of the poor necessary to be held for the purpose of
carrying into effect the provisions of this act, or of the original

Meetings of
trustees.