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and as the same were amended by Chapter 3 of the Acts of the
Assembly of 1886, and as the same were further amended by
Chapter 5 of the Acts of the Assembly of 1898, be and the same
are hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to
read as follows:

SECTION 1. The County Commissioners of Frederick County
shall have charge of and control over the almshouse and the
property pertaining thereto, and they shall also make all con-
tracts for furnishing supplies and all things necessary for the
support and maintenance of all persons committed to the alms-
house, and to the jail of Frederick County.

SEC. 2. The County Commissioners of Frederick County shall
have power to make such rules, orders and regulations for the
better relieving, controlling and setting the poor to work, and
furnishing vagrants, beggars and vagabonds and other offenders
at said almshouse, and for the good government of the alms-
house in said County as shall seem proper to them.

SEC. 3. The County Commissioners of. Frederick County
shall on the third Monday in February in the year 1914, and on
the second Monday in January in every year thereafter appoint
some suitable person to be overseer or keeper of the almshouse
and manager of the farm connected therewith, who shall enter
upon the discharge of his office on April 1st, succeeding the
date of his appointment, and they shall appoint so many offi-
cers and employes of the almshouse as they may deem requisite
and fix and establish their compensation.

SEC. 4. The said overseer or keeper of the almshouse shall
receive all sums of money arising from the sale of products
raised on said farms connected with the almshouse and shall
within ten days from the receipt thereof pay the same to the
Board of County Commissioners of Frederick County.

SEC. 5. The County Commissioners may remove such over-
seer or keeper, and any other officer or employe, at their discre-
tion, and appoint another or others in his or their place at any
time during the year whenever in their judgment the interests
of the County may require.

SEC. 6. They shall require such overseer or keeper, before
entering upon the discharge of his duties, to give a bond, with
security approved by them, payable to the "County Commis-
sioners of Frederick County," in the penalty of One Thousand
Dollars, conditioned as follows, to wit: "The condition of the