SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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nothing herein contained shall prevent the said levy court from re-
appointing any of the existing trustees, if they in their discretion
shall deem it advisable and proper so to do.
4. And be it enacted, That the existing trustees shall meet
at the aforesaid court-house, on the first Tuesday of July next,
and deliver over to their successors, to be taken under their care
and management, all books and papers, and a schedule of all and
singular the property belonging to the aforesaid poor-house, under
the penalty of forty dollars each, to be recovered and applied as
other fines and forfeitures are directed to be recovered and applied
in the aforesaid original act to which this is a supplementary act.

Dec. Ses. 1821.

Existing trus-
tees to deliver
over property.

5. And be it enacted, That the trustees for the poor to be
appointed in virtue of this act, and their successors in that capaci-
ty hereby constituted the trustees for the poor of Worcester county,
shall respectively, forever have, hold, use, exercise and enjoy all the
powers, authorities, rights, property, liberties, privileges and im-
munities which have hitherto been possessed, enjoyed and used,
and shall be subject to all the penalties for neglect of the duties of
trustees for the poor of said county, as are mentioned and declared
in the said original act to which this is a supplementary act, except
the power of appointing new trustees, or filling up casual vacancies
in their own board, and except so far as the same may be varied or
limited by the provisions of this act. And the poor-house situated in
the same county, and the lands, tenements, goods and chattels
thereto appertaining and belonging, shall be, and the same are
hereby vested in the trustees for the poor of the said county, and
their successors in that capacity to be appointed in virtue of this
act, to and for the uses and purposes mentioned and declared in this
act, and in the original act to which this is a supplementary act.

Powers, privi-
leges, &c.

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 levy court of the said county,
at their next meeting which shall happen thereafter.

Vacancies.

7. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the trus-
tees 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 levy court, at
their first meeting in the month of April in each and every year, a
statement of their accounts and expenditures, with the necessary
vouchers, for the preceding year; which accounts shall be passed
and settled by the said levy court, previous to the making the new
appointments of trustees for the ensuing year.

Accounts to be
rendered annu-
ally.

8. And be it enacted, That the trustees for the poor to be
appointed under this act, shall, at their first meeting in July next,
and at their annual meeting in May thereafter, proceed to ap-
point an overseer of the poor of said county according to the
provisions of the eleventh section of the original act to which
this act is a supplement. And also, to appoint one of their
own body clerk to the trustees for the poor of said county,
whose duty it shall be to keep the accounts of the said trustees for
the poor, and to prepare all necessary statements for settlement
with the levy court; and for whose compensation the said court
may allow such sum as they shall think just.

Oveseer—du-
ties.