MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 3363

1922, ch. 262, sec. 11.

251. The Commissioners may prescribe such rules and by-laws as they
may think convenient and necessary for the direction, government and
support of the county home and for the cleanliness, maintenance and em-
ployment of all poor persons therein, and of all vagrants, beggars, vaga-
bonds and offenders that may be committed thereto.

1922, ch. 262, sec. 12.

252. The said overseer shall keep a fair and regular list of all poor,
and of all vagrants, beggars, vagabonds and offenders committeed to said
county home.

1922, ch. 262, sec. 13.

253. He shall also keep regular accounts of all material which may
come to his hands as overseer, and all moneys received by him for the sale
of the produce of the labor of the inmates of the county home, or other-
wise, and lay them before the Commissioners at their regular meetings, or
oftener if required.

1922, ch. 262, sec. 14.

254. He may compel any of the said poor, beggars, vagrants, vaga-
bonds or offenders in the county home to work, if of sufficient ability, and
shall sell the produce of their labor, and apply the money arising there-
from to their maintenance and support.

1922, ch: 262, sec. 15.

255. Whenever any person may be admitted into said county home
and work house, to be supported by the county, the said overseer, under
the direction of said Commissioners shall collect any debts due to such
person, and may enforce payment thereof, as the said person might have
done.

1922, ch. 262, sec. 16.

256. When any person shall be admitted to said county home, to be
supported by the county, who may have any property of any description,
the overseer shall take the same into his possession, and he may, under
the direction of said Commissioners pursue the same means for the recov-
ery thereof, as the person himself could have done before his admission to
said county home.

1922, ch. 262, sec. 17.

257. All debts collected or property received under the two preceding
sections shall be applied to the support, of the person whose they are, and
if he shall leave the county home with the consent of the Commissioners
any part thereof remaining unapplied shall be restored to him.

1922, ch. 262, sec. 18.

258. Upon complaint being made to the police justice for said county,
and upon his being satisfied, upon hearing the party, that the complaint