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An Act concerning the Overseers of the Poor. 1828 22 (1828)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0388 and id is 1 raw text is: sS It thide ft/.third year of the Oomrnonwealth. clerks of the county courts, and the said sherilrd, to be correct, and transmit the samc to the Governor anti Council. (eneral Assem- 21. Jnai be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the bly, when to be said Executive, as soon as all tie returns of the polls aibresaid convened. shall be received by them, carefully to examine the same, and if it shall appear that a majority or all the votes given, is fer ratify- ing said amended Constitution, it shall further-be the dty of said ixecutive, forthwith to convene the GeneralAssembly, in order that the Constitution, thus ratified, shall be carried into effect. Penalty on oflieers 22. .nd be it further enacted, That if any sheriff or other for falling to per- officer, shall fail, faithfully, and within the time prescribed by this fbrm thefr duties. act, to discharge any of the duties hereby required, such sheriff or other officer, so faiiling as aforesaid, shall lorfait and pay the sui of five hundred dollars, to be recovered by action of debi, in any of the courts of record in this Commonwealth, fur the use and in the name of the President and Directors of the Literary Fund. Commencement. 23. This act shall cotmence and be in force from the passing thereol. UiIATEIR 16-An act to amend the law In relation to the pay or witnesses in certain caes. (Passed February t2th, 1829.) Witnesses for 1. Be it enacted by the General Slsseinbly. That no person sum- Commonwealth, noned as a witness for the Commonwealth, in any prosecutiom for we to be paid a misdemeanors where there shall have been a prosecutor, shall eutof Treasury. be pai& (rut of the teasury for his or her attendance, whether the prosecutor or defendant be insolvent or not, unless tle court, at the term in which the same may be tried, shall certify that such prosecution was required by a due regard to the laws or interests of the Conunonweal th. Witnesses for free 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for t crons, to be pald witnesses summoned on behalf ofa free person tried or examined y them. for any offience whatever, to receive payment from the Common- wealth for their attendance, but all charges for the sunmnoning and attendance of witnesses on behalf of free persons, shall be charged -to and paid by such free persons, as in other cases. Clerks of court. to 3. And be it further enacted, hat if any clerk shall fail to comply with re- comply with the requisitions of the act concerning the expenses Fe. lo fth 1825, of crituinal prosecutions, pased the twelfth of Fehruary, eigh- before receiviug teen hundred and twenty five, lie shall not be entitled to receive compemato1. any allowance .or his public services, until the provisions of the See acts 1824 sa'I act shall have beea complied with. ch. 11, p. 16, 17. Commenccement. 4. 1his act shall be in force trom its passage. CHAPTER .-An act concerning the Overseers of the Poor. (Passed Febrbary 20th, 1829.) 8lerk, agent, or 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, 'rlsat it shall be the president or over- duty of the clerk or agent, where there is an agent who has the seers of th ieer to examine tieir care of the records of the overseers of the poor of the several records, and re- counties antd corporations of this Commonwealth ; if there be no port to Auditor clerk or agent, then the duties required by this act shall be dis- all Information charged by the relative to the a president of the board of overseers of the poor in por. any county in which thtere may be uo such clerk or agent, at their

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