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25. The sheriff of Kent county shall be entitled to fifty cents
for the delivery of each certificate of the appointment of said
trustees to the persons appointed.

26. Upon complaint made that any person, from his disorderly
conduct, gives disturbance to a neighborhood, and is likely to
become chargeable to said county, any justice of the peace of
said county, if upon hearing the party he shall judge the com-
plaint to be well founded, may commit such disorderly person
to said alms-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
during the space of six months.

27. Upon complaint and due proof made by the overseer of
the alms-house to any one trustee, that any inmate thereof hath
behaved in a disorderly manner, or hath neglected or refused to
obey any of the rules of the said corporation, the said trustee
may order and direct such moderate and proper correction, not
exceeding ten lashes for any one offence, as the nature of the
case may require.

28. Any justice of the peace for .said county, or any person
authorized and appointed by such justice, may apprehend, or
cause to be apprehended and committed to said alms-house, any
vagrants, vagabonds, beggars, and other idle and dissolute and
disorderly persons found loitering or residing in said county,
who follow no labor, trade or occupation, and have no means of
subsistence, there to be kept at hard labor for any time not
exceeding three months.

29. All sheriffs, constables and other officers shall aid and
assist the said trustees and the officers by them appointed, in
the discharge of their respective duties.

30. If any person shall at any time be sued or prosecuted for
any matter or thing done in pursuance of this law, or any thing
therein contained, he may plead the general issue and give the
special evidence in his defence; aad if, upon trial, verdict shall
be given for the defendant, or if the plaintiff be non-suit, or dis-
continue, the defendant shall recover treble costs, and if the
plaintiff shall be unable to satisfy the same, they shall be satisfied
and paid by the attorney who brought the suit, unless the
plaintiff shall give security for the costs approved by the court.