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APPENDIX. 



Commis- 

 sioners and 

 overseers 

 may appoint 

 and remove 

 officers. 



general stated or special meetings shall be five, and if less 

 than five shall be present, the commissioners and overseers, 

 or commissioner and overseer so present, shall have power to 

 adjourn the meeting, and in that case notice shall be given of 

 the day, place, and purpose of such adjourned meeting, by 

 advertisement in any two such newspapers published as 

 aforesaid, at least ten days before such adjoui-ned meeting ; 

 and at every such meeting the commissioners and overseers 

 present shall elect a chairman to preside for that meeting 

 only, and the said chairman shall have no vote except in 

 cases where the other commissioners and overseers present 

 shall be equally divided, in which cases he shall have a 

 casting or deciding vote : provided always, that it shall not 

 be in the power of any adjourned or special meeting to alter 

 or rescind any act done or resolution made by any annual 

 general meeting ; and at all meetings whatsoever the com- 

 missioners and overseers shall defray their own expences. 



38. And be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for 

 the said commissioners and overseers, at their stated and 

 other general meetings, from time to time to nominate and 

 appoint treasui'ers and clerks, and such other officers as they 

 shall tliink proper, with reasonable salaries ; and the said 

 commissioners and overseers shall take sufficient secm'ity 

 from every such treasurer and other officer having the care 

 or custody of any money to be raised or received by virtue 

 of this act, for the due execution of his office, as the said 

 commissioners and overseers shall think proper ; and it shall 

 be lawful for the said commissioners and overseers from time 

 to time to remove and again to replace any such ti*easurers, 

 clerks, and other officers, or any of them ; and such clerk or 

 clerks shall attend the stated and other general meetings of 

 the said commissioners and overseers, and shall, in a proper 

 book or books to be provided for that purpose, enter and keep 

 a true and perfect account of all the money to be received by 

 virtue of this act, and of the application of the same, and of 

 all the acts, px'oceedings, and transactions of the said com- 

 missioners and overseers, by virtue of and under the authority 



