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SAMUEL STEVENS, JR. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Dec. Ses. 1822

this act, to make out and deliver to the sheriff of said county, a cer-
tificate of the appointment of each of the said trustees so appointed,
endorsing one of the said certificates for each of them respectively:
of which the said sheriff shall, within six days thereafter, deliver
one thereof, to each of the said trustees respectively; and it shall
thereupon be the duty of the several trustees, so appointed and no-
tified 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 said act, for wilfully refusing or
delaying to take upon him the duties of said office, to meet on the
first Monday of June next ensuing such appointment, and on the
third Monday in April forever thereafter, except prevented by sick-
ness or other unavoidable accident; and in such case, as soon there-
after as the disability shall be removed, -at the alms house of said
county, and qualify in the manner prescribed by the original act, to
which this is a supplementary act, and thenceforward to proceed in

Proviso.

the execution of the duties of the said office; Provided, that nothing
herein contained shall prevent the levy court from re-appointing
any of the existing trustees, if they in their discretion shall deem it
advisable and proper so to do.

Meeting in
June.

4. And be it enacted, That the existing trustees shall meet at the
aforesaid alms house, on the first Monday in June next, and deliver
over to their successors, to be taken under their management and care
all books and papers, and a schedule of all and singular the property
belonging to the aforesaid alms house, under the penalty of fifty dol-
lars 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 ves-
ted.

5. And be it enacted, That the trustees for the poor to be appoint-
ed in virtue of this act, and their successors in that capacity, hereby
constitute the trustees for the poor of Prince George's county, shall
respectively forever have, hold, use, exercise, and enjoy all the pow-
ers, authorities, rights, properties, liberties, privileges and immuni-
ties, which have hitherto been possessed, enjoyed and used, and
shall be subject to all the penalties for neglect of the duties of trus-
tees 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 alms house situated in
said county, and the lands, tenements, goods and chatties thereunto
appertaining; 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 the original
act to which this is a supplementary act.

Vacancy.

6. And be it enacted, That in all cases of a vacancy or vacancies
happening, by non acceptance, death, resignation, removal out of the
county, or disqualification, in any other manner of any of the said
trustees, the vacancy or vacancies thereby occasioned, 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 of
the poor to be appointed in virtue of this act, under the penalty of
fifty dollars each, to be recovered and applied as other fines are di-
rected to be recovered and applied in the aforesaid original act, to