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all incidental expenses, shall not in any one year exceed the
sum of three thousand dollars.

24. The trustees shall annually, on or before the third Monday
in June, report to the county commissioners the probable amount
in their judgment necessary for the relief and support of the
poor, both in and out of the alms-house, together with a state-
ment in writing, exhibiting each general item of expenditure
and the amount thereof; a list of the names of the several out-
pensioners, with the allowance to each; the number and names
of the inmates of the alms-house at the date of their report, as
also such as may have been in and left subsequent to their
previous report, and also an account showing the gross amount
received and expended within the same period.

25. The county commissioners, at their annual session for
making the county levy, shall upon the receipt of the report
of the trustees of the popr levy the amount estimated by the
trustees to be necessary for the support of the alms-house and
of out-pensioners; Provided, the same shall not exceed the sum
of three thousand dollars.

26. If any person shall sell or dispose of any strong liquor, or
other thing, to any inmate of said alms-house, he shall forfeit
the sum of twenty-five dollars.

BENEDICT.

27. No person shall permit his swine or geese to go at large in
the town of Benedict, in Charles county, and any citizen of said
town may kill or impound any hog or goose found going at large
therein ; and if the owner of any hog or goose impounded shall
not within three days after notice, in writing, redeem such hog
or goose, by paying for*impounding the same the sum of one
dollar for every hog and thirty-seven and a half cents for every
goose, the person impounding may sell the same at the most
public place in said town, and after paying the penalties afore-
said shall pay the balance of the proceeds of sale to the
owner.

28. If any person shall be sued for impounding or killing any
hog or goose found going at large in said town, he may plead the
general issue and give the special matter, in evidence.