| 1811.
CHAP. 162.
Proviso. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
so appointed and notified of such appointment, and who shall
accept thereof, (under the penalty imposed by the said original act
upon any person appointed a trustee of the poor in virtue of the
said act, for wilfully refusing or delaying to take upon him the duties
of the said office,) to meet on the said first Monday of June
next ensuing such appointment, (except prevented by sickness or
other unavoidable accident, and in such case as soon thereafter as
the disability shall be removed,) at the alms-house of the said
county, and qualify in the manner prescribed by the original act,
and thenceforward to proceed in the execution of the duties of said
office; Provided nevertheless, that nothing herein contained
shall
prevent the said court from reappointing any of the existing trustees,
not exceeding five, if they in their discretion shall deem it
advisable and proper so to do. |
Existing trustees
to deliver over
books, &c. to
their successors,
under a certain
penalty. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the existing trustees
shall meet
at the aforesaid alms-house on the first Monday of June next, and
deliver over to their successors all books and papers, and all and
singular the property belonging to the aforesaid alms-house, under
the penalty of twenty dollars each, to be recovered and applied as
other fines and forfeitures are directed to be recovered and applied
in the aforesaid original act or the supplements thereto, to be
taken under the care and management of the said newly appointed
trustees. |
Trustees vested
with powers as declared
in original
act. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the trustees of
the poor to be
appointed in virtue of this act, shall and may have, and they are
hereby invested with all the powers and authorities, and subject to
all the penalties for neglect of the duties of trustees of the poor of
said county, as are mentioned and declared in the said original act,
except the power of appointing new trustees, or filling up casual
vacancies in their own board; and in all cases of vacancies happening
by nonacceptance, death, resignation, removal out of the
county, or disqualification of any of the said trustees, the vacancies
thereby occasioned shall be filled up by the said levy court,
at their next meeting which shall happen thereafter. |
To render a statement
of accounts
to levy court under
a penalty. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the trustees
of the poor to be appointed in virtue of this act, under the
penalty of fifty dollars each, to be recovered and applied as herein
before directed, to make out and render to the said levy court, at
their first meeting in May in each year, a statement of their accounts
and expenditures, with the necessary vouchers, for the preceding
year, which accounts shall be settled and passed by the said
court, previous to the making out the new appointments of trustees. |
Account settled
by treasurer shall
be on oath. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all accounts settled
by the treasurer
or overseer of the poor with the trustees, shall be on oath or
affirmation that they are just and true, which oath or affirmation
shall be administered by any one of the trustees. |
Trustees to meet
at alms-house. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all the meetings
of the said trustees
of the poor necessary to be held for the purpose of carrying into
effect the provisions of this act, or of the original act, or of the
supplements thereto, shall be held at the alms-house in the said
county, except such meetings as may be necessary for the settlement
and passing their accounts with the levy court. |
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