ROBERT BOWIE, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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nothing contained in this act, except so far as the same
relates to judgments by default and appeals, shall ex-
tend or be construed to extend to any case now
brought or depending in any of the courts of this state.

CHAPTER 162.

1812.

A further additional Supplement to an act entitled,
An act for the relief of the poor of Frederick
county.

Passed Jan, 4,
1812.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the office of the present Trustees of
the poor of Frederick county shall cease and be at an
end on the first Monday of June next; and the ap-
pointment of the trustees of the poor of said county
shall, from and after the first Monday of May next,
be vested in the levy court of said county.

Trustees of the
poor shall be
appointed by
the levy court.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court of
Frederick county shall be, and they are hereby au-
thorised and required, at their first meeting in May
next, and at their first meeting in the month of May
in each succeeding year thereafter, to appoint five dis-
creet and proper persons, qualified agreeably to the
provisions of the original act and the supplements
thereto, and of this act, to be trustees of the poor of
the said county from and after the first Monday of
June next.

Levy court shall
at their first
meeting in May-
next, and annu-
ally thereafter,
appoint com-
missioners,

AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the du-
ty of the clerk of the said court, within five days after
such appointment, and within the like time after any
future appointments to be made in virtue of this act,
to make out and deliver to the sheriff of said county, a
certificate of the appointment of each of the said trus-
tees so appointed or to be appointed, endorsing one
of the said certificates for each of them, respectively;
which said sheriff shall, within six days thereafter,
deliver one thereof to each of the said trustees, res-
pectively; and it shall thereupon be the duty of the
several trustees, so appointed and notified of such ap-
pointment, and who shall accept thereof, (under the
penalty imposed by the said original act upon any
person appointed a trustee of 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
first Monday of June, next ensuing such appointment,
(except prevented by sickness or other unavoidable
accident, and in such case as soon thereafter as the dis-
ability shall be removed) at the alms-house of the said

Clerk shall
make out and
deliver certifi-
cates of appoint-
ment to the
sheriff, who
shall deliver
them to the
trustees, Du-
ties of the trus-
tees so appoint-
ed.