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3156 ARTICLE 15.

therein to perform such labor as may be consistent with their health and
ability, and may conduce to the interests of the institution.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 15, sec. 17. 1860, Art. 14, sec. 17.

17. They shall dispose of all products of the farm belonging to said
almshouse, over and above what may be necessary for the support of the
inmates thereof; and the amount of the money arising on such sale shall
annually, on the first day of January, be returned, on oath, and paid to
the county commissioners.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 15, sec. 18. 1860, Art. 14, sec. 18.

18. They shall, under the penalty of fifty dollars each, make out and
render to the county commissioners, at their first meeting in the month
of March in each year, a statement of their accounts and expenditures,
with the necessary vouchers, for the preceding year, which accounts shall
be settled and passed by the county commissioners previous to making the
new appointments of trustees for the ensuing year.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 15, sec. 19. 1860, Art. 14, sec. 19.

19. Any one of said trustees may direct and appoint, under his hand
in writing, what poor shall be received into the said almshouse; and the
overseer shall also have power to receive any applicant for admission
between the times of meeting of said trustees, subject to the approval of
the said trustees at their next meeting thereafter.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 15, sec. 20. 1860, Art. 14, sec. 20.

20. The said overseer shall keep a regular list of all poor and of all
beggars, vagrants, vagabonds and offenders, who shall be committed to said
almshouse, and also regular accounts of all materials and other things
which may come to his hands as overseer, and of all expenses and charges
attending the maintenance and support of the inmates of the almshouse,
and all monies received by him from the sales of the produce of their labor
or otherwise, of the stock and farming utensils, the crops and other articles
made on the estate, and return the same, under oath, to be administered
by one of said trustees, at the close of each year, to the said trustees, and
the same shall be laid by them before the county commissioners, at their
annual meeting in March.

P. L. L,., 1888, Art. 15, sec. 21. 1860, Art. 14, sec. 21.

21. The overseer may compel any of the inmates of said almshouse,
if of sufficient ability, to work, and shall, as before directed, account for
the produce of their labor.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 15, sec. 22. 1860, Art. 14, sec. 22.

22. No trustee shall on his own account furnish supplies of any descrip-
tion for the use of the almshouse, and if any trustee shall so do, he shall,
upon sufficient evidence of the fact being offered to the county commis-

 

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