DANIEL MARTIN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 159
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Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That all accounts settled by 1830.
the overseer of the poor with the trustees, shall be on oath, CHAP. 151.
(or affirmation,) that they are just and true, which oath, (or
affirmation,) shall be administered by any one of the trus- Accounts of
tees; and the said overseer shall, at the expiration of each overseer to be
and every year, return to the said trustees, on oath, (or af- on oath.
firmation,) a fair and regular account in writing, of all the
stock, farming utensils, and other things now remaining in
his hands, or which nny come to his hands aforesaid, to-
gether with a statement of the crop and other articles made
on the estate of the said alms or work house, and an ac-
count of all the expenses and charges attending the main-
tenance, and support of the poor in said alms or work-
house, and of all monies received by him for the s:iles of
the produce of their labour and otherwise; which said state-
ments and accounts the trustees are hereby directed to lav
before the levy court at their said annual meeting.
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Sec. 9, Ad be it enacted. That all the meetings of the Meetings
said trustees for the poor, necessary to be held for carrying
into effect the provisions of this act, or of the original act
to which this act is supplementary, and shall be held at the
alms or work- house in the said county, except such meet-
ings as may be necessary for the settlement and passing
their accounts with the levy court.
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Sec. 10. And be it enacted, That the clerk of the said
court shall bo 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 ap-
pointed; all which charges and allowances are to be le-
vied, collected and paid over, as other county charges are.
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Allowance for
certificates of
appointment.
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Sec. 11. And be if enacted, That the trustees shall, each
and every of them, be entitled to receive as a compensation
a per diem allowance of two dollars for each and every clay
they shall necessarily attend at the alms or work-house, or
other place of meeting, in discharging the duties imposed
by this act, which is to be levied, collected and paid, as
other county charges ore.
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Allowance t0
trustees.
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Sec. 12. And be it enacted, That from and after the or-
ganization of this institution, under the provisions of this
not, it shall not be .lawful f>r any trustee to furnish, on his
own account, supplies of any description, for the use of the
alms or work-house; and if any trustee shall, in violation
of this act, furnish supplies to said institution, he shall, upon
sufficient evidence of the fact being offered to the levy
court of the county aforesaid, forfeit, for the use and bene-
fit of the institution, whatever supplies he may have so fur
nished.
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Supplies, not
to be furnish-
cd by trustees.
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