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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Bond for faith-
ful perform-

SEC. 4. They shall require the said overseer to give bond
with security approved by them, and payable to them, in the

ance of du-
ties.

penalty of five hundred dollars, for the faithful performance

of the duties of his office.

SEC. 5. They shall allow said overseer a sum not to ex-

Wages.

ceed three hundred dollars per annum, and so pro rata during

his continuance in office, as a compensation for his services.

Removal.

SEC. 6. They shall remove said overseer at their pleasure

and appoint another in his place.

SEC. 7. The said overseer shall keep a regular list of all

List of in-
mates.

poor vagrants, vagabonds and other offenders committed to

said Almshouse, and all insane persons committed to said

insane annex, and shall lay the same before said Commission-

ers when required.

SEC. 8. He shall keep and on the first Monday in April in

Account to be

each year shall return to said Commissioners, under oath,

rendered an-
nually.

administered by one of said Commissioners, a regular account

in writing of all the stock, farming utensils and other things

that may come to his hands, with a statement of the crops or

other articles made on the lands belonging to said Almshouse,

and an account of all the expenses attending the maintenance

and support of the inmates thereof and of the insane annex,

and of all moneys received by him for the sales of produce

of their labor or otherwise.

SEC. 9. He may compel any of the inmates of said Alms-

To cause in-

house and insane annex, if of sufficient ability, to work, and

mates to
work.

may sell and account, as aforesaid, for the produce of their

labor.

SEC. 10. The said County Commissioners shall dispose of

Cultivation of
Almshouse

the products arising from the cultivation of the lands belong-

farm.

ing to said Almshouse over and above what may be necessary

for the maintenance of the inmates thereof, and the amount

of money arising from such sales shall be used in defraying

the other expenses incident to the running of said Almshouse

and insane annex. In case the products of said farm shall

be insufficient for the expenses of the inmates of said Alms-

house and insane annex, the said County Commissioners shall

annually levy such sum, in addition thereto, as shall be nec-

essary.

SEC. 11. No County Commissioner shall be directly or in-

directly concerned in furnishing any article for the use of