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SAMUEL STEVENS, JR. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Dec. Ses. 1822

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 origi-
nal act, to which this is a supplementary act except the power of ap-
pointing 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 said
county, and the lands, tenements, goods and chatties thereto apper-
taining, and belonging shall be, and the same are hereby vested in
the trustees for the poor of said county, and their successors in that
capacity to be appointed in virtue of this act, to and for the use and
purposes mentioned, and declared in this act and in the original act
to which this a supplementary act.

Vacancies.

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 trustees, the vacancies thereby occasi-
oned shall be filled up by the levy Court of said county, at their next
meeting which shall happen thereafter.

Account.

7. And be it enacted. That it shall be the duty of the trustees 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 direct-
ed, to make out, and render to the said levy court at their first meet-
ing in the month of April in each and every year a. statement of their
accounts and expenditures, with the necessary vouchers for the pre-
ceding year, which accounts shall be passed and settled by the said
levy court previous to the making of the new appointments of trus-
tees for the ensuing year.

Overseer and
clerk.

8. And be it enacted, That the trustees for the poor to be appoint-
ed under this act, shall at their first meeting in July next, and at their
annual meeting in May thereafter proceed to appoint 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 set-
tlement with the levy court, and for whose compensation the said court
shall and may allow such sum as the\ may think just.

Overseer

shall account.

9. And be it enacted, That all accounts settled by the 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 any one of the trustees; and the said overseer shall, on the first
Monday in April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, and
at the expiration of each and every year thereafter, return to the said
trustees, on oath (or affirmation) a fair and regular account in writ-
ing, of all the stock, farming utensils, and other things, now remain-
ing in his hands, or which may come to his hands as aforesaid, to-
gether with a statement of the crop and other articles, made on the
estate of the said poor house, and an account of all the expenses and
charges attending the maintenance and support of the poor in said
poor 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.

Place of
meeting.

10. And be it enacted, That all the meetings of the said trustees 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 poor house in said county.