DANIEL MARTIN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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CHAPTER 151.
An Additional Supplement to an act, entitled, An act
for the relief of the Poor of Kent County, passed at
November Session 1787, chapter 11.
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1830.
CHAP. 151.
Passed Feb. 7.
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Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the office of the present trustees for the
poor of Kent county shall cease and be at an end on the
second Monday of April next, and that the appointment
of trustees for the poor of said county from and after
the first Monday of March next, shall be vested in the
levy court of said county.
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Trustees to he
appointed by
levy court.
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Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the levy court of Kent
county shall be, and they are hereby authorised and requir-
ed, at theii first meeting in the month of March in each
succeeding year thereafter, to appoint five discreet and pro-
per persons, qualified agreeably to the provisions of the
original act, to which this is a supplementary act, and of
this act, to be trustees for the poor of said county.
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When to be
appointed.
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Sec. 3. And be it enacted. That it shall be the duty of
the clerk of said levy court, within five days after such
appointment, and within the like time after any future ap-
pointment to be made in virtue of this act, to make out
and deliver to the sheriff of said county, a certificate of
the appointment of each of the said trustees so appointed,
or to he appointed, endorsing one of the said certificates
for each of them respectively ; which said sheriff, within
six days thereafter, shall deliver one thereof to each of the
said trustees respectively; and it shall thereupon be the
duty of the several trustees, appointed and notified of such
appointment, and who shall accept thereof, (under the pe-
nalty imposed by the said original act upon any person ap-
pointed a trustee for 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
April 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 or work-house of the said county, and qualify in the
manner prescribed by the original act to which this is a
supplementary act, and thenceforward to proceed in the
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Certificates of
appointment.
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execution of the duties of said office; Provided neverthe-
less, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the said
levy court from reappointing any of the existing trustees,
if they in their discretion shall deem it advisable and pro-
per so to do.
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Proviso
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