322 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the Supervisors may order and direct such moderate and
proper correction for any such offence as the nature of the case
may require.

113. The Supervisors shall meet at the Almshouse on the
first Monday of April, yearly, and appoint a Superintendent of
said Almshouse, who shall receive a salary of one thousand six
hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly. They shall re-
quire such Superintendent to enter into bond with sufficient
security, payable to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
in the penalty of five hundred dollars, for the faithful perform-
ance of the duties of his office.

114. In addition to such other duties as. the Supervisors may
prescribe, the Superintendent shall keep a regular list of all
poor, beggars, vagrants, vagabonds and offenders who shall be
committed to said Almshouse, and also regular accounts, in
writing, of all materials and other things which may come to
his hands, and of all expenses and charges attending their
maintenance and support, and of all moneys received by him
for the sale of the produce of their labor, and otherwise, as
Superintendent, and shall lay the same before the Supervisors
annually and whenever required.

115. The Supervisors may appoint a Purveyor of Provisions
to said Almshouse, and fix his salary at a sum not to exceed fif-
teen hundred dollars per annum. It shall be the duty of said
Purveyor to provide and furnish provisions to said Almshouse
under the direction of said Supervisors, to whom he shall
annually return a statement or account of his receipts and
expenditures, to be examined and passed at their discretion.

116. The Supervisors shall require the said Purveyor to
give bond and security to be approved by them, and in such
penalty as they shall direct, conditioned for the faithful per-
formance of the trusts reposed in him, and upon failure to com-
ply with the conditions thereof, they may direct said bonds to be
put in suit, and any sum of money recovered in such suits shall
be applied to the use of said Almshouse.