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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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1830.
CHAP 151.
Property to be
delivered over
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Sec. 4. And be it enacted. That the existing trustees
shall meet at the aforesaid alms or work-house on the se-
cond Monday of April next, and deliver over to their suc-
cessors, to he taken under their care and management, all
books and papers, and all and singular the property belong-
ing to the aioresaid alms or work house, under the penalty
of forty dollars each, to be recovered and applied as other
fines and forfeitures are directed to be recovered and ap-
plied in the aforesaid original act to which this is a supple-
mentary act.
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Power of trus-
tees.
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Sec. 5. And be it enacted. That the trustees for the
poor, to he appointed in virtue of this act, and their suc-
cessors, in that capacity, hereby constitutes the trustees for
the poor of Kent county, shall respectively forever have,
hold, use, exercise and enjoy, all the powers, authorities,
rights, property, liberties, privileges and immunities, which
have hitherto been possessed, enjoyed and used, and shall
be subject to nil the penalties for neglect of the duties of
trustees for the poor of said county, as are mentioned and
declared in the said original act to which this is a supple-
mentary act, except the power of appointing new trustees,
or filling up casual vacancies in their own board, and ex-
cept so far as the .same may be varied or limited by the
provisions of this act; and the alms or work house situated
in the same county, and the lands tenements, goods and
chattels, thereunto appertaining and belonging, shall be,
and the same are hereby vested in the trustees of the poor of
the said county, and their successors, in that capacity, to be
appointed in virtue of this act, to and for the uses and pur-
poses mentioned and declared in this act, and the original
act to which this is a supplementary act.
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Vacancies.
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Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That in all cases of vacan-
cies happening by non-acceptance, death, resignation, re-
moval out of the county, or disqualification, of any of the said
trustees, the vacancies thereby occasioned shall be filled up
by the levy court of paid county, at their next meeting
which shall happen thereafter.
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Accounts to be
made out.
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Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty
of the trustees for the poor to be appointed in virtue of
this act, under the penalty of fifty dollars each, to be re-
covered and applied as herein before directed, to make out
and render to the said levy court, at their first meeting in
the month of March in each and every year, a statement
of their accounts and expenditures, with the necessary
vouchers for the preceding year; which accounts shall be
passed and settled by the said levy court, previous to the
making the new appointments of trustees for the ensuing
year.
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