1398 HOWARD COUNTY. [ART. 14.

P. L. L., (1860,) art 13, sec. 1.

13. They shall require the said overseer to enter into bond,
with sufficient sureties, payable to the said trustees, in the pen-
alty of five hundred dollars, conditioned for the faithful perform-
ance of the duties of his office.

Ibid.

14. The trustees shall meet at the almshouse four times ia
each year, to wit: in the first week in February, May, August
and November, or oftener if by them deemed necessary, to make
by a majority of votes of such as may be present, all such rules
and by-laws as they shall think convenient and necessary for the
direction, government and support of the' almshouse, and the
employment of all poor persons, vagrants, beggars, vagabonds-
and offenders, that shall be committed thereto.

Ibid.

15. The overseer shall keep a regular list of all persons com-
mitted to said almshouse.

Ibid.

16. He shall keep and return to the said trustees, upon oath, to
be administered by one of them, at the meeting of the trustees,
next preceding the month of March, annually, a regular account,
in writing, of all the stock, farming utensils and other things
remaining in his hands, together with a statement of the crop
and other articles made on the estate of said almshouse, and of
the expenses and charges attending the maintenance and support,
of the inmates thereof, and of all money received by him from
the sales of the produce of their labor; which statements and
accounts, with the vouchers that support them, the trustees shall
lay before the county commissioners at their annual meeting in

March.

Ibid.

17. All meetings of the said trustees shall be held at the
almshouse, except such as may be necessary for the settlement,
of their accounts with the county commissioners.

Ibid.

18. No trustee shall furnish, on his own account, supplies of
any description for the use of the almshouse, upon pain of for-
feiting the same to the use of the almshouse.