| 1816.
CHAP. 104. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
and the supplement thereto, except the power of appointing new
trustees, or of 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. |
Statements of accounts
to be rendered
to levy court. |
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 every 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. |
Accounts to be
settled 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. |
| Meetings of trustees. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all the meetings
of the 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
supplement 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. |
Allowance to clerk
for each certificate. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the clerk of said
court shall be
allowed twenty-five cents for each certificate of appointment which
he shall make out and deliver to the sheriff; and the sheriff shall be
allowed fifty cents for the delivery of each of the said certificates
to the persons appointed, all of which charges and allowances are
to be levied, collected and paid over, as other county charges are. |
| Repeal. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any thing in the
said original
act, or the supplement thereto, which is repugnant to or inconsistent
with the provisions of this act, shall be and the same is hereby repealed. |
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Passed Jan. 22, 1817. |
CHAP. CV.
An Act to Incorporate a Company to make a Turnpike Road from
Boonsborough, in Washington County, to the Conococheague
Creek
at William's-Port. Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 243. |
| Direction of road. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
a company be incorporated for making a turnpike road, beginning
at the termination of the Baltimore and Frederick turnpike road,
and running thence in the nearest and most practicable route
through the town of William's-Port, to the Conococheague creek. |
Subscription books
to be opened. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That subscription books
be opened for
a capital stock of seventy thousand dollars, in shares of twenty
dollars, to be taken in for twenty thousand dollars of the same at
Baltimore, under the direction of John E. Howard, William Cooke,
senior, Robert Smith, Roswell S. Colt, Robert Gilmor, junior,
Thomas Ellicott, Isaac Tyson, James Cheston, Jeremiah Sullivan
and Henry Lee Williams, or any two of them; and for thirty
thousand dollars at William's-Port, under the direction of Thomas
Buchanan, Frisby Tilghman, Edmund H. Turner, Daniel Rentch, |
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