SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1819.

created or attached on the said lands in the life-time of said Levin
H. Campbell.

CHAP. 97.

CHAP. XCVIII.

An Act Supplementary to an act, entitled, An act for the relief of the poor with-
in the several Counties therein mentioned.

1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all
accounts settled by the overseer of the alms and work house of
Anne-Arundel county, with the trustees of the poor of the said
county, shall be on oath or affirmation, as the case may be, that they
are just and true.
2. And be it enacted, That the said overseer shall, at the meeting
of said trustees next preceding the month of March yearly, return
to the said trustees, on oath or affirmation, a fair and regular ac-
count, in writing, of all the stock, farming utensils, and other ar-
ticles remaining in his hands, together with a statement of the pro-
duce of the estate of the said alms-house during the year previous
to the said return, which statement shall designate What part there-
of has been applied to the maintenance and support of the poor of
said county, and also what part of it has been sold, and what sums
of money have been received therefor.
3. And be it enacted, That the said trustees shall yearly lay be-
fore the levy court of said county, at their first meeting after the
month of February, all accounts and statements of said overseer,
authenticated in manner aforesaid, together with the vouchers that
support them, and at the same time shall present their own account,
as is directed in the ninth section of the act to which this is a sup-
plement, instead of the month of November as is therein directed.

Passed Feb 1, 1820

Accounts of over-
seer of A A. coun-
ty alms-house to
be settled on oath

Overseer to render
account to trustees
of all the stock, &c
in his hands

Trustees to lay ac-
counts before levy
court

CHAP. XCIX.

An Act to confirm and make valid the Acts and Proceedings of James Houston,
as a Justice of the Peace for Caroline County.

whereas James Houston, of Caroline county, was duly com-
missioned a justice of the peace in and for Caroline county for the
years eighteen hundred and eleven, eighteen hundred and twelve,
eighteen hundred and thirteen, eighteen hundred and fourteen,
eighteen hundred and fifteen, and eighteen hundred and sixteen,
and did qualify and act as such during the years aforesaid: And
whereas, the said James Houston hath since acted as a justice of
the peace without being commissioned, being under the impression
that he was still in commission, but that so soon as he discovered
that he was not in the commission of justices of the peace for said
county, did cease to act as such: And whereas, great inconveniencies
will result to sundry persons, unless the acts which have been done
by the said James Houston as a justice of the peace for Caroline
county since the years before mentioned, are confirmed and made
valid; therefore,
1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all
acts and proceedings which have been done and made by the said
James Houston, since the years above mentioned, as a justice of the
peace for Caroline county, shall be as valid, and shall have the same
effect and operation in law, as if the said James Houston had been
duly commissioned and qualified as a justice of the peace of the
state of Maryland in and for Caroline county, according to the
laws of the state of Maryland.

Passed Feb 2, 1820
Preamble

Acts declared va-
lid