ART. 14.] KENT COUNTY. 653

vouchers, for the preceding year, which accounts shall be settled
and passed by the county commissioners, previous to making
the new appointments of trustees for the ensuing year.

19. Any one of said trustees may direct and appoint, under
his hand in writing, what poor shall be received into the said
alms-house, and the overseer shall also have power to receive
any applicant for admission between the times of meeting of
said trustees, subject to the approval of the said trustees, at
their next meeting thereafter.

20. The said overseer shall keep a regular list of all poor
and of all beggars, vagrants, vagabonds and other offenders,
who shall be committed to said alms-house, and also regular
accounts of all materials and other things which may come to
his hands as overseer, and of all expenses and charges attending
their maintenance and support, and all moneys received by him
from the sales of the produce of their labor or otherwise, of the
stock and'farming utensils, the crops and other articles made on
the estate, and return the same, under oath, to be administered
by one of said trustees, at the close of each year, to the said
trustees, and the same shall be by them laid before the county
commissioners, at their annual meeting in March.

21. The overseer may compel any of the inmates of said alms-
house, if of sufficient ability, to work and labor, and shall, as
before directed, account for the produce of their labor.

22. No trustee shall on his own account furnish supplies of
any description for the use of the alms-house, and if any trustee
shall so do, he shall, upon sufficient evidence of the fact being
offered to the county commissioners, forfeit for the use and
benefit of the alms-house whatever supplies he may have fur-
nished.

23. Each trustee shall be entitled to an allowance of two
dollars for each day he may necessarily attend at the alms-
house, or other place of meeting, in the discharge of the duties
of his office.

24. The clerk of the county commissioners shall be entitled
to twenty-five cents for each certificate of appointment of
trustees of the alms-house he may make out and deliver to the
sheriff.