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be maintained therein to perform such labor as may be consistent

with their health and ability, and may conduce to the interests of
the institution.

P. L. L, (1860,) art. 14, sec. 17.

17. They shall dispose of all products of the farm belonging
to said almshouse, over and above what may be necessary for the
support of the inmates thereof; and the amount of the money
arising on such sale shall annually, on the first day of January,
be returned, on oath, and paid to the county commissioners.

Ibid. sec. 18.

18. They shall, under the penalty of fifty dollars each, make
out and render to the county commissioners, at their first meeting
in the month of March in each year, a statement of their accounts
and expenditures, with the necessary vouchers, for the preceding
jear, which accounts shall be settled and passed by the county

•commissioners previous to making the new appointments of
trustees for the ensuing year.

Ibid. sec. 19.

19. Any one of said trustees may direct and appoint, under
Ms hand in writing, what poor shall be received into the said
almshouse; and the overseer shall also have power to receive any
applicant for admission between the times of meeting of said

trustees, subject to the approval of the said trustees at their nest
meeting thereafter.

Ibid. sec. 20.

20. The said overseer shall keep a regular list of all poor and
of all beggars, vagrants, vagabonds and offenders, who shall be

committed to said almshouse, and also regular accounts of all
materials and other things which may come to his hands as over-
seer, and of all expenses and charges attending the maintenance
and support of the inmates of the almshouse, and all monies re-
ceived by him from the sales of the produce of their labor or
otherwise, of the stock and farming utensils, the crops and other
articles made on the estate, and return the same, under oath,
to be administered by one of said trustees, at the close of each
year, to the said trustees, and the same shall be laid by them
before the county commissioners, at their annual meeting in
March.