LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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which this is a supplementary act, to make out and tender to the said
levy court at their first meeting in the month of May 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 making the

Dec. Ses. 1822

new appointments of trustees for the ensuing year.
8. And be it enacted, That all accounts settled by the overseer of
the poor, shall be on oath or affirmation, that they are just and true,
which oath or affirmation shall be administered by one of the trus-
tees, and the 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
then remaining in his hands, or which may come to his hands afore-
said, together with a statement of the crop and other articles made
on the estate of the alms house, and an account of all the expenses
and charges attending the maintenance and support of the poor in
said alms house, and 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 annual meeting in May.

Overseer's

account

9. 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 is a supplementary
act, shall he held at the alms house in said county, except such meet-
ings as may be necessary for the settlement and passing their ac-
counts with the levy court.

Place of meet
ing.

10. And be it enacted, That the clerk of the levy court shall be al-
lowed 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 are to be levied, collected
and paid over as other county charges are.

Compensa-
tions.

11. And be it enacted, That from and after the organization of this
institution, under the provisions of this act, it shall not be lawful
for any trustee to furnish on his own account, supplies of any de-
scription, for the use of the alms house, and if any trustee shall in
violation of this act, furnish supplies to said institution, he shall up-
on evidence of the fact being offered to the levy court of the county
aforesaid, forfeit for the use and benefit of the institution, whatever
supplies he may have furnished, and forever after be rendered in-
capable of acting as one of the trustees to said institution.

Prohibition.

12. And be it enacted, That any thing in the original act to which
this is a supplementary act, as relates to Prince George's county, which
is repugnant to or inconsistent with the provisions of this act, shall
be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Repeal.

CHAPTER 122.

An act for the support of Sarah Taggart, of Kent county.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the levy
court of Kent county be, and they are hereby authorised and required
to levy annually on the assessable property of said county, so long as
they shall see cause, the sum of thirty dollars for the support and
maintenance of Sarah Taggart, and that the same, when so levied,
shall be collected by the collector of said county, and by him paid
annually to the said Sarah Taggart, or to her order.

Passed Feb
8, 1823.
Levy $30.