LEVIN WINDER, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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and thenceforward to proceed in the execution of the
duties of said office.

1812.

4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the existing
trustees shall meet at the aforesaid alms house on the
second Monday of June next, and deliver over to
their successors all books and papers, and all and
singular the property belonging to the aforesaid alms
house, under the penalty of twenty dollars each, to be
recovered and applied as other fines and forfeitures
are directed to be recovered and applied in the afore-
said original act or the supplements thereto, to be
taken under the care and management of the said

Existing trus-
tees to deliver
over to their
successors all
books or pa-
pers and pro-
perty.

newly appointed trustees.
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the trustees
of the poor to be appointed in virtue of this act
shall and may have, and they are hereby invested
with all the powers and authorities, and subject to
all the penalties for neglect of the duties of trustees
of the poor of said county, as are mentioned and de-
clared in the said original act; except the power of
appointing new trustees, or filling up cases vacan-
cies in their own board; and in all cases of vacan-
cies happening by non-acceptance, death, resigna-
tion, removal out of the county, or disqualification of
any of the said trustees, the vacancies thereby oc-
casioned shall be filled up by the said levy court, a
their next meeting which shall happen thereafter.

Trustees in-
vested with
powers and
authorities,
and subject to
penalties.

6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be
the duty of the trustees of the poor to be appointed
in virtue of this act, under the penalty of fifty dol-
lars each, to be recovered and applied as herein be-
fore directed, to make out and render to the said levy
court at their first meeting in May in each year, a
statement of their accounts and expenditures with
the necessary vouchers for the proceeding year;
which accounts shall be examined, settled, and pass-
ed by the said court at their discretion.

Duty of the
trustees.

7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all accounts
settled by the treasurer or 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 one of the trustees.

Accounts —
how to be

settled.

S. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all the meet-
ings of the said. trustees of the poor necessary to be
held for the purpose of carrying into effect the pro-
visions of this act, or of the original act, or of the
supplements thereto, shall be held at the alms house
in the said county, except such meetings as may be

Meetings-—
where to be
held.