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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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. |
1804.
CHAP. 58.
Trustees to be
appointed invested
with powers
and subject to the
penalties mentioned
in original act. |
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 April 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. |
Accounts to be
rendered annually
to levy court. |
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. |
Accounts settled
to be on oath. |
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 and work-house in
the said county, except such meetings as may be necessary for the
settlement and passing their accounts with the levy court. |
Meetings to be
held at alms-house. |
9. AND, whereas it is unreasonable that
the time and services of
any individual should be devoted to public uses without a reasonable
compensation for the same, therefore, BE IT ENACTED, That each
of the said trustees to be appointed in virtue of this act, shall be allowed
one dollar per diem for each and every day he shall attend to
the discharge of the duties of trustee of the poor, and that the clerk
of said county 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. |
Allowance to trustees. |
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. |
Parts of acts repealed. |
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CHAP. LIX.
An act authorising Hugh Sherwood, of Huntington, to complete his
Collection. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 618. |
Passed Jan. 12, 1805. |
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CHAP. LX.
An act to incorporate the Marine Insurance Company. Lib.
JG. No.
4, fol. 619. |
Passed Jan. 12, 1805. |
WHEREAS sundry persons within this state have formed
themselves
into a society for the insurance of ships and merchandise, and |
Preamble. |
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