942 WORCESTER COUNTY. [ART. 22.

penditures, with the necessary vouchers for the preceding year,
which accounts shall be passed and settled by the county com-
missioners previous to making the appointment of trustees for
the ensuing year.

17. The overseer of the alms-house before entering upon the
discharge of his duties shall give bond, payable to the said trus-
tees, with sufficient sureties, in the penalty of five hundred dol-
lars, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of his
office.

18. He shall keep a list of all "poor, beggars, vagrants, vaga-
bonds, and other offenders committed to the said alms-house,
and lay the same before the said trustees at their regular meet-
ings, or oftener if required.

19. He may compel any of the inmates of said alms-house to
work and labor.

20. He shall keep a regular account of all the stock, farming
utensils and other-things that may come to his hands, and of the
crops and other articles made on the estate of said alms-house,
and of all the expenses and charges attending the maintenance
of the poor therein, and" of all moneys received by him from
the sales of the produce of their labor, and shall, on the first
Monday of April in each year, return the same to the said
trustees, with an affidavit annexed, to be administered by one
of the said trustees, that the same is just and true; and the
trustees shall lay the same before the county commissioners at
the time of making their report.

21. Any one of the trustees of the poor may in writing direct
the admission of any poor person into said alms-house.

22. Any justice of the peace for said county, or any one au-
thorized by a justice of the peace, may apprehend or cause to
be apprehended any rogues, vagrants, vagabonds, beggars, and
other idle, dissolute and disorderly persons found loitering or
residing in said county, who follow no labor, trade or occupation,
and have no visible means of subsistence, and commit them to
said alms-house for any term not exceeding three months, there
to be kept at hard labor, and the overseer shall receive and
employ them according to the tenor of their commitment.