96 BALTIMORE COUNTY. [ART. 3.

11. They shall prescribe, provide for, and direqt all matters
relating to the support, treatment and employment of all
paupers, vagrants, and other persons in the alms-house and
work-house, or any other place under their care and charge.

12. They shall procure or erect and use all such machinery,
materials, and implements as they shall think proper or
necessary for any purpose connected with their duties or the
exercise of the powers vested in them.

13. They may make, amend, alter, and repeal all such by-
laws as shall be necessary to carry into full effect all the powers,
authorities, and duties vested in or required of them; Provided,
suoh by-laws be not contrary to law.

14. They may appoint a purveyor of provisions to said alms-
house, whose duty it shall be to provide and furnish provisions
to said alms-house, under the directions of said trustees, to
whom he shall annually return a statement or account of his
receipts and expenditures, to be examined and passed at their
discretion.

15. They shall require the said purveyor to give bond and
security, to be approved by them, and in such penalty as they
shall direct, conditioned for the faithful performance of the trusts
reposed in him, and upon failure to comply with the conditions
thereof, they may direct said bond to be put in suit, and any sum
or sums of money recovered in such suits shall be applied to the
use of said alms-house.

16. They may allow a salary to said purveyor not exceeding
four per cent. upon the amount of money expended by him under
their direction.

17. They shall meet at the alms-house, and on the first Mon-
day of May yearly appoint an overseer of said alms-house and
work-house.

18. They may allow and pay to said overseer a salary not ex-
ceeding five hundred dollars per annum, and so pro rata during
his continuance in office.

19. They shall require said overseer to enter into bond, with
sufficient securities, payable to said trustees, in the penalty of