The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-10-28

expenditures 1Of Cne past month WIN
vouchers thereof, together with a
statement of his requirements for the
coming month.
41KK. The County Commissioners
shall also keep a complete set of ac-
County Commissioner shall sell sup
County Farm. This set of books shall
not only include items relating to the
maintenance of the County Home and
County Farm, but also items relating
to the original cost of the County
Farm and the erection of the County
Home and outbuildings, if it is nee
essary to erect the same, or any of
them, and of the equipment and other
things placed on the Farm and in the
Home.
ALL. The County Commissioners
shall meet at the County Home at
least once in every three months.
They shall use every effort to make
the cost of the purchase and mainte-
nance of the County Home and County
Farm as economically as possible and
consistent with the proper care of the
inmates. Especially shall they use
economical methods in the purchase
of supplies and other materials. No
County Commissioner shall sell sup
plies or materials or be in any way
interested in the sale of them to the
County Home or County Farm.
ANN. The County Commissioners
shall be compensated for their expen-
ses in connection with the County
Home and County Farm in the same
manner and at the same rate as for
their services and expenses in connec-
ton with other county matters.
Ann. The Superintendent shall
keep a list of the inmates committed
to the County Home, showing their
names, place of birth, nationality, age
at the time Of commitment, date of
discharge or of death, as the case
may be, cause of death if inmate died
at the County Home, whether or not
the inmate was previously committed
there and, if so, how often and for
how long each time A true copy of
the list shall be furnished by the Su-
perintendent to the County Commits
sioners semi-annually on the first day
of January and June of each year and
whenever they shall require.
400. The Superintendent shall
compel all of the inmates of the
County Home, if Of sufficient ability,
to work.
App. Upon complaint and due
proof made by the Superintendent to
d Justice Of the Peace of the County
that any person in the County Home
has behaved in a disorderly manner
or has refused or neglected to obey
any of the rules or regulations of the
County Home, the said Justice of the
Peace may direct such moderate and
proper correction to be given to such
offenders as the nature of the case
may require.
400. Upon complaint made that
any person from his disorderly con-
duct gives disturbance to the neigh
borhood and is likely to become
chargeable to the county, any Justice
of the Peace, if, upon hearing he shall
adjudge the complaint to be well foun-
ded, may commit such person to the
County Home for any time not exceed
ing three months, unless he shall find
security, in the discretion of the JUS
tice of the Peace, in any sum not ex-
ceeding fifty dollars ($50.00) for his
good behavior for the space of six
months.
ARR. Any Justice of the Peace of
the county or any person authorized
by him may apprehend and commit to
the County Home any rogues, vaga-
bonds, Migrants, beggars and other
idle, dissolute and disorderly persons
found lettering or residing in the said
county and having no visible means
of subsistence and following no trade
or occupation, there to be kept at
hard labor for any period not exceed
ing three months and the Superinten-
dent shall receive and employ them
accordingly.
Ass. The County Commissioners
as body, may appoint what poor, in
sane, feeble minded, aged, crippled
and others who are Or are likely to
become public charges, shall be re-
ceived in the County Home; provided
that any one Commissioner may, dur
ing the interval between meetings of
the County Commissioners as body,
commit a poor, insane, feeble mind
ed, aged, crippled or other person who
is or is likely obecome a public
charge, and he or she, as the case may
be, shall be received into the County
Home and there remain until the next
meeting of the Commissioners as
body, at which time they shall deter
mine whether or not the said person
shall remain there longer.
Att. The County Commissioners
shall have full power and authority to
receive into the County Home all such
lunatics, insane, feeble minded, Grip
pied, aged persons and paupers as