LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Dec Ses. 1821.

the office of the present trustees for the poor of Anne-Arundel
county, shall cease and be at an end on the second Monday of April
next, and that the appointment of the trustees for the poor of said
county, from and after the first Monday of March next, shall be
vested in the levy court of said county.

Levy court to
appoint.

0 2. And be it enacted, That the levy court of Anne-Arundel
county, shall be, and they are hereby authorised and required, at
their first meeting in the month of March in each succeeding
year thereafter, to appoint five discreet and proper persons, qualifi-
ed agreeably to' the provisions of the original act to which this
is a supplementary act, and of this act, to be trustees for the poor
of said county.

Certificates of
appointment--
trustees to
meet.

, 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the clerk
- of said levy court, within five days after such appointment, and
within the like time after any future appointment to be made in vir-
tue 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 ap-
pointed or to be appointed, endorsing one of the said certificates
for each of them respectively; which said sheriff, within six days
thereafter, shall deliver one thereof to each of the said trustees respec-
tively; and it shall thereupon be the duty of the several trustees ap-
pointed and notified of such appointment, and who shall accept
thereof, (under the penalty imposed by the said original act upon
any person appointed a trustee for 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 second Monday of April 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 Aims-House of the said county,
and qualify in the manner prescribed by the original act to which
this is a supplementary act, and thenceforward to proceed in the

Proviso.

execution of the duties of said office; Provided nevertheless, That
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.

Old trustees to
deliver over
books, &c.

, 4. And be it enacted, That the existing trustees shall meet
at the aforesaid Alms-House on the second Monday of April next,
and deliver over to their successors, to be taken under their care
and management, all books and papers, and all and singular the
property belonging to the aforesaid Aims-House, under the pen-
alty 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.

Powers, penal-
ties, &c—pro-
perty vested.

5. And be it enacted, That the trustees for the poor to be
appointed in virtue of this act, and their successors in that capacity
hereby constitutes the trustees for the poor of Anne-Arundel
county, shall respectively, forever have, hold, use, exercise and en-
joy 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 du-
ties 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