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Dec. Ses. 1816
Clerk to make
out certificate
of appointment.
Proviso.
Present trus-
tees to deliver
books, &c to
their successors.
Trustees pow-
ers—vacancies.
To render
statement of
their accounts
to levy court.
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3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the clerk of
the said court, within five days after such appointment, and with-
in the like time after any future appointments 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 trus-
tees so appointed, or to be appointed, endorsing one of the said
certificates for each of them respectively, which said sheriff shall,
within ten days thereafter, deliver one thereof to each of the said
trustees respectively; and it shall thereupon be the duty of the se-
veral trustees so appointed, and notified of such appointment,
and who shall accept thereof, under the penalty imposed by the
supplement to the original act upon any person appointed a trus-
tee of the poor in virtue of the said act for wilfully delaying or
refusing to take upon him the duties of the said office, to meet on
the said first Monday of June next ensuing such appointment,
(except prevented by sickness, or other unavoidable accident,
and in such case as soon thereafter as the disability shall be re-
moved) at the. alms-house of said county, and qualify in the man-
ner prescribed by the original act, and thenceforward proceed in
the execution of the duties of said office; Provided nevertheless,
that nothing herein contained shall prevent the said court from
reappointing any of the existing trustees, if they in their dis-
cretion shall deem it adviseable and proper so to do.
4. And be it enacted, That the existing trustees shall meet at
the aforesaid alms-house on the first Monday of June next, and
deliver over to their successors all books and papers, and all and
singular the property belonging to the aforesaid alms-house, un-
der the penalty of twenty dollars each, to be recovered and ap-
plied as other fines and forfeitures are directed to be recovered
and applied in the supplement to the original act, to be taken
under the care and management of the said newly appointed
trustees.
5. And be it enacted, That the trustees of the poor to be
appointed in virtue of this act, shall and may have, and are here-
by invested with, the powers and authorities, and subject to all
the penalties for neglect of the duties of trustees of the poor of
said counties, as are mentioned and declared in the said original
act, and the supplement thereto, except the power of appointing
new trustees, or of filling up casual vacancies in their own
board; and in all cases of vacancies happening by non-accep-
tance, death, resignation, removal out of the county, or disqua-
lification of any of the said trustees, the vacancies thereby occa-
sioned shall be filled up by the said levy court at their next meet-
ing which shall happen thereafter.
6. 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 pe-
nalty 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 May every year, a statement of their ac-
counts and expenditures, with the necessary vouchers for the pre-
ceding year, which accounts shall be settled and passed by the
Raid court previous to the making out the new appointments of
trustees.
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