54 ANNE ARTTNDEL COUNTY. [ART. 2.

point a fit person to be overseer of the alms-house, and such other
proper officers and servants as to them may seem necessary.

11. They shall pay said overseer a salary not exceeding the
sum of two hundred and twenty-five dollars per annum, and so
pro rata during his continuance in office.

12. They may remove said overseer, and all other officers and
servants by them appointed, at their pleasure, and appoint others
in their places.

13. They shall require the said overseer to enter into bond,
with sufficient securities, payable to the said trustees, in the
penalty of five hundred dollars, conditioned for the faithful per-
formance of the duties of his office.
•

14. The trustees, or a majority of them, shall meet at the alms-
house four times in each year, to wit: in the first week in Feb-
ruary, May, August and November, or often er, if by them deemed
necessary, to make, by a majority of votes of such as may be
present, all such rules and by-laws as they shall think convenient
and necessary for the direction, government and support of the
alms-house and the employment of all poor persons, vagrants,
beggars, vagabonds and other offenders that shall be committed
thereto.

15. The overseer shall keep a regular list of all persons com-
mitted to said alms-house.

16. He shall keep and return to the said trustees, upon oath,
to be administered by one of them, at the meeting of the trustees
next preceding the month of March annually, a regular ac-
count, in writing, of all the stock, farming utensils, and other
things remaining in his hands, together with a statement of the
crop and other articles made on the estate of said alms-house,
and of the expenses and charges attending the maintenance and
support of the inmates thereof, and of all money received by
him from the sales of the produce of their labor; which state-
ments and accounts, with the vouchers that support them, the
trustees shall lay before the county commissioners at their annual
meeting in March.