ART. 19.] SOMERSET COUNTY. 801

shall annually levy such sum as in addition thereto shall be
necessary.

15. All meetings of the said trustees shall be at the alma-
house.

16. They shall annually, under the penalty of fifty dollars
each, make out and render to the county commissioners at the
first meeting in the month of April a statement of their ac-
counts, with the general condition of the farm, the number of
persons in their employ, and compensation, the amount of pro-
duce and expenditures, the probable surplus, the deficiency after
payment of expenses, the number of inmates, the number capa-
ble for the ensuing year of labor, and their general condition,
which accounts shall be settled by the commissioners previous
to making a new appointment of trustees.

17. No trustee shall be directly or indirectly concerned in fur-
nishing any article for the use of the alms-house, under the
penalty of five hundred dollars, to be recovered by suit in the
Circuit Court for said county in the name of the State, one-
half to the use of the informer and the other half for 'the use
of the county.

18. The said overseer shall keep a regular list of all poor,
vagrants, vagabonds and other offenders committed to said
alms-house, and shall lay the same before the trustees when
required.

19. He shall keep, and on the first Monday of April in each
year return to the said trustees, under oath administered by one
of said trustees, a regular account in writing of all the stock,
farming utensils and other things that may come to his hands,
with a statement of the crops or other articles made on the
lands belonging to said alms-house, and an account of all the
expenses attending the maintenance and support of the inmates
thereof, and of all moneys received by him for the sales of the
produce of their labor or otherwise; which said statements and
accounts the said trustees shall lay before the county commis-
sioners at their meeting in April.

20. He may compel any of the inmates of the said alms-house,
if of sufficient ability, to work and labor, and may sell and
account as aforesaid for the produce of their labor.

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