SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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varied or limited by the provisions of this act; and the Alms-House
situated in the same county, and the lands, tenements, goods and
chattels thereunto 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 vir-
tue of this act, to and for the uses and purposes mentioned and
declared in this act, and the original act to which this is a supple-
mentary act.

Dec. Ses. 1821.

6. And be it enacted, That in all cases of vacancies hap-
pening by non-acceptance, death, resignation, removal out of the
county, or disqualification of any of the said trustees, the vacan-
cies thereby occasioned shall be filled up by the levy court of 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 March 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

settled annual-

ly.

8. And be it enacted, That all accounts settled by the over-
seer of the poor with the trustees, shall be on oath (or affirmation,)
that they are just and true, which oath (or affirmation) shall be ad-
ministered by any one of the trustees; and the said overseer shall,
at the expiration of each and every year, return to the said trustees,
on oath (or affirmation,) a fair and regular account in writing of all
the stock, farming utensils and other things now remaining in his
hands, or which may come to his hands aforesaid, together with a
statement of the crop and other articles made on the estate of the
said Alms-House, and an account of all the expenses and charges
attending the maintenance and support of the poor in said Alms-
House, and of all monies received by him for the sales of the
produce of their labor and otherwise; which said statements and
accounts the trustees are hereby directed to lay before the levy

court at their said annual meeting.

Annual state-

ment of stock,
&c. on oath.

9. And be it enacted, That all the meetings of the said trus-
tees for the poor, necessary to be held for carrying into effect the
provisions of this act, or of the original act to which this act is
supplementary, shall be held at the Aims-House in the said county,
except such meetings as may be necessary for the settlement and

passing their accounts with the levy court.

Meetings—
where to be

held.

10. And be it enacted, That the clerk of the said court shall
be allowed twenty-five cents for each certificate of appointment
which he shall make out and deliver to the sheriff, and the sheriff
shall be allowed fifty cents for the delivery of each of the said
certificates to the persons appointed; all of which charges and al-
lowances are to be levied, collected and paid over as other county

charges are.

Clerk's &
sheriff's fees.

11. And be it enacted, That the trustees so to be appointed
by the levy court as aforesaid, or a majority of them, by and
with the consent of the levy court of the county aforesaid, be and
they are hereby fully authorised and empowered, if, and whenever

Trustees may
sell poor house
—proceeds.