DANIEL MARTIN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1828

of Harford county shall cease and be at an end on the se-
cond Monday of April next, and that the appointment of
the trustees of the poor of said county, from and after the
first Monday of March next, shall be vested in the com-
missioners of said county.

CHAP. 75.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the commissioners of
Harford county, shall be and they are hereby authorised and
required, at their first meeting in the month of March in
each succeeding year thereafter, to appoint five discreet and
proper persons, one to be chosen from each district of said
county, qualified agreeable to the provisions of the original
act to which this is a supplementary act, and of this act, to
be trustees for the poor of said county.

Trustees how to be

appointed

Sec. 3. And be it enacted. That i't shall be the duty of
the clerk of said commissioners, within five days after such
appointment and within the like time after any future ap-
pointment, to be made in virtue of this act, to make out and
deliver to the sheriff of said county, a certificate of the ap-
pointments of each of the said trustees so appointed, or to
appointed, endorsing one of the said certificates for each
of them respectively, which the said sheriff, within six days
thereafter, shall deliver one thereof to each of the said trus-
tees respectively, and it shall thereupon be the duty of the
several trustees appointed and notified of such appointment,
and who shall accept thereof, (under the penalty imposed by
the said original act upon any person appointed a trustee for
the poor in virtue of the said act, for wilfully refusing or
delaying to take upon him the duties of the said office,) to
meet on the said second Monday in April next ensuing such
appointment, except prevented by sickness, or other una-
voidable accident, and in such case as soon thereafter as the
disability shall be removed, at the alms-house of said coun-
ty, and qualified in the manner prescribed by the original act
to which this is a supplementary act, and thenceforward to

proceed in the execution of the duties of said office; Pro-
vided nevertheless, that nothing herein contained shall pre-
vent the said commissioners from re-appointing any of the
existing trustees, if they, in their discretion, shall deem it
advisable and proper so to do.

Proviso

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the existing trustees shall
meet at the aforesaid alms-house on the second Monday of
April next, and deliver over to their successors, to be taken
under their care and management, all books and papers,
and all and singular the property belonging to the aforesaid
alms-house, under the penalty of forty dollars each, to be
recovered and applied as other fines and forfeitures are di-
rected to be recovered and applied in the aforesaid original
act to which this is a supplementary act.

Trustees to meet

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the trustees of the poor,
to be appointed in virtue of this act. and their successors

To exercise pow-

ers hitherto posses-

sed by former act