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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
days thereafter, deliver one thereof to each of the said trustees respectively;
and it shall thereupon be the duty of the several trustees,
so appointed and notified by 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 second 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. |
NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 12. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the existing trustees
shall meet
at the aforesaid alms house on the second 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. |
Existing trustees
to deliver over to
their successors all
books, papers, and
property. |
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 non-acceptance, 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. |
Trustees invested
with powers and
authorities, and
subject to penalties. |
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 examined, settled and passed,
by the said court, at their discretion. |
Duty of trustees. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all accounts settled
by the treasurer
or overseer 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. |
Accounts, how to
be settled. |
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. |
Meetings, where to
be held. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the trustees appointed
by virtue
of this act, shall meet four times a year, to wit: The second Monday
in June, October, January, and April, or oftener if need be, at
their discretion, and for every day that they serve in discharge of |
When to be held—
Compensation of
trustees. |
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