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9. They shall cause a list of paupers in the alms-house, to be
kept for each year, stating the name of each, when he or she
came, and when he or she left or died, and how many there were
in the institution at tfae beginning and end of each year.

10. The omission to keep and publish the aforesaid account or
keep the aforesaid list, shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and the
overseer or commissioners, or any of them, guilty thereof, shall
be liable to indictment in the Circuit Court for said county*

11. The overseer may compel any inmate of said alms-house
to work and labor, if of sufficient ability to do so.

12. He shall account semi-annnally with the county commis-
sioners, or oftener if required, and shall in such accounts state,
under oath, all the sales and purchases made by him, and such
other matters relating to the poor, the alms-house, or his duties
as overseer, as the commissioners may from time to time require.

13. The county commissioners may, and some of them shall,
from time to time, inspect the alms-house and farm attached,
and report their condition and the manner of conducting the
same, to the commissioners.

14. No commissioner shall furnish on his own account, sup-
plies of any description, for the use of the alms-house, upon
penalty of forfeiting whatever he may so furnish.

15. "Upon complaint made that any person from his disorderly
conduct gives disturbance to his neighborhood and is likely to
become chargeable to the county, any justice of the peace of the
said county, if upon hearing the party he shall judge the com-
plaint to be well founded, may commit such disorderly person to
the alma-house for any time not exceeding three months, unless
he shall find security, at the discretion of the justice, in any sum
not exceeding twenty-five dollars, for his good behavior for the
period of six months.

16. Upon complaint and due proof made by the overseer to
any one commissioner, that any person in said alms-house hath
behaved in a disorderly manner, or neglected to perform his
daily labor and task, or to obey any of the rules, ordinances or
by-laws of the institution, he may order and direct such mode-
rate and proper correction, not exceeding fifteen lashes for any
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