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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 75.

in that capacity, hereby constitutes the trustees for the poor
of Harford county, shall respectively, forever, have, hold,
use, exercise and enjoy, all the powers, authorities, rights,
property, liberties, privileges and immunities, which have
hitherto been possessed, enjoyed and used, and shall be
subject to all the penalties for neglect of the duties of trus-
tees for the poor of said county, as are mentioned and de-
clared in the said original act to which this is a supplemen-
tary act, except the power of appointing new trustees, of
filling up casual vacancies in their own board, and except
so far as the same may be varied or limited by:the provisi-
ons of this act; and the alms-house situated in the same
county, and the lands, tenements, goods and chattels, there-
unto appertaining and belonging, shall be and the same are
hereby vested in the trustees for the poor of the said coun-
ty, and their successors in that capacity to be appointed in
virtue of this act, to and for the uses and purposes mention-
ed and declared in this act, and the original act to which
this is a supplementary act.

Vacancies

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That in all cases of vacancies
happening by non-acceptance, death, resignation, removal
out of the county, or disqualification, of any of the said
trustees, the vacancies thereby occasioned shall be filled up
by the commissioners of said county at their next meeting
which shall happen thereafter.

Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of
the trustees for the poor to be appointed in virtue of this act,
under the penalty of fifty dollars each, to be recovered and
applied as herein before directed, to make out and render
to the said commissioners, at their first meeting in the month

of March in each and every year, a statement of their ac-
counts and expenditures, with the necessary vouchers, for
the preceding year, which accounts shall be passed and set-
tled by the commissioners previous to the making the new-
appointments of trustees for the ensuing year.

Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That all accounts settled by
the overseer of the poor with the trustees, shall be on oath,
or affirmation, that they are just and true, which oath, (or
affirmation,) shall be administered by any one of the trus-
tees, and the said overseer shall, at the expiration of each
and every year, return to the said trustees on oath, (or af-
firmation,) a fair and regular account in writing, of all the
stock, farming utensils, and other things now remaining in
his hands, or which may come to his hands aforesaid, to-
gether with a statement of the crop, and other articles,
made on the estate of the said alms-house, and an account
of all the expenses and charges attending the maintenance
and support of the poor in said alms-house, and of all mo-
nies received by him for the sales of the produce of their
labour, and otherwise, which said statements and accounts