12

LAWS OF MARYLAND, Nov. SESS. 1812.

1812.

Passed Nov.
17, 1812.

CHAPTER 12.
A further additional supplement to the act en-
titled, An Act for the relief of the poor in the
counties of Dorchester and Somerset, passed in
seventeen hundred and eighty five, and the sev-
eral supplements thereto, and to repeal the acts
of Assembly therein mentioned.

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

Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the office of the present trustees of
the poor of Dorchester county shall cease and be at
an end on the second Monday of June next; and the
appointment of the trustees of the poor of said coun-
ty shall, from and after the second Monday of May
next, be vested in the levy court of said county,

Trustees to
be appointed —
when — how to
qualify.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Dorchester county shall be, and they are hereby
authorised 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 seven
discreet 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 second Monday of
June next.

Clerk's duty
after appoint-
ments — she-
riff's duty —
duty of the
trustees.

3, AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the clerk of the said court, within five days
after such appointment, and within the like time af-
ter 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 trustees so appointed or to be appointed, en-
dorsing 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 respectively; and it shall thereupon be
the duty of the several trustees so appointed and no-
tified by such appointment, and who shall accept
thereof, (under the penalty imposed by the said origi-
nal 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 of-
fice, ) to meet on the said second Monday of June
next ensuing such appointment, (except prevented
by sickness or other unavoidable accident, and in
such case as soon thereafter as the disability shall be
removed, ) at the alms house of the said county, and
qualify in the manner prescribed by the original act,